<\/strong>Letters on Life and Death
by Olga Jacoby
edited by Jocelyn Catty and Trevor Moore
ISBN-13: \u200e 978-1-911072-35-5
Skyscraper Publicatiosn Limited, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First published posthumously in 1919, Words in Pain represents the collected letters of writer, thinker and rationalist Olga Jacoby when living \u201cunder sentence of death\u201d from a terminal heart condition. This book is a picture of family life and love, interspersed with clear headed musings on the nature of illness, loss and death. (Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Switzerland Schedule<\/strong> In Love<\/strong> This book is Amy Bloom\u2019s account of losing her husband Brian twice, first slowly to Alzheimer\u2019s dementia, and then when she becomes a widow: Brian choose to take control of his death by travelling to \u2018DIGNITAS \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity\u2019 in 2020, accompanied by Amy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alzheimer\u2019s Disease: What it\u2019s like to see it coming<\/strong> and Choosing death with dignity in the face of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease<\/strong> Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking edited by Timothy E. Quill, Paul T. Menzel, Thaddeus Pope<\/a>, and Judith K. Schwarz Persons living with incurable and progressive or terminal illness often wonder what may lie ahead as their disease progresses. Some of these individuals and their families will seek information about options and choices that permit a hastened death if their suffering or deterioration becomes intolerable. Voluntary stopping eating and drinking (VSED) is a widely available option that permits decisionally capable persons to hasten death. This book provides clinically realistic descriptions of the practice and, in separate chapters, explores benefits and challenges along clinical, ethical, legal, and institutional dimensions. (Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Beautiful Sunset<\/strong> The novel considers the lives and deaths of four individuals from widely varied backgrounds who all share the same doctor. The way Everald interweaves the story of these individuals adds a deeply personal feeling to the Voluntary Assisted Dying issue. The book can be purchased direct from Everald Compton with this weblink<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Medical Aid in Dying: Key Variations Among U.S. State Laws<\/strong> O, Let me Not Get Alzheimer\u2019s Sweet Heaven!<\/strong> by Colin Brewer \u201cLife is not always wonderful and not all things in it are bright and beautiful.\u201d Alzheimer\u2019s is one of those dark, ugly things and most people hope for a quick death if they get it. Modern medicine prolongs the agony for everyone but as Dr Colin Brewer\u2019s book shows, there are choices, from refusing tube-feeding and resuscitation to \u2018deliverance\u2019, a planned, peaceful farewell at home amid friendly faces. It\u2019s an option many doctors choose. Their patients should have the same privilege and comfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparing To Leave<\/strong> In this booklet, Michael Irwin describes his personal views on “Life”, refers to his right-to-die activities since he became the chairman of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, in the UK (in 1996), and considers the best ways he would like his own life to end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My life as an animal Excerpt: If all went to plan on April 28, 2017, I ended my life in a small village in the canton of Zurich, accompanied by officials from Dignitas. [\u2026] \u2018The alternative, because of my condition, was to eke out more years without purpose\u2019, I wrote in my letter, \u2018without the work that means so very much to me, shrinking into pain, infirmity and indignity. I do not want that! I want to be free of that dread prospect…\u2019[\u2026] Despite the negatives, those last months were very satisfying – working on my book, taking stock of things, being content that I had a (hopefully) dignified way out. My October 2015 letter showed how clear my thinking was. In it I say that the prospect of a Dignitas-assisted death \u2018…gives me great heart and a feeling of positivity. I have had a rich, varied and wonderfully fulfilling life… To be able to make choices about how it ends and exert a real measure of control would be wonderful.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? Wisdom from a Chair: Thirty Years of Quadriplegia by Andrew I. Batavia and Mitchell Batavia Andrew (Drew) I. Batavia (1957-2003) was a disability activist, professor, scholar, and attorney who served as a White House Fellow 1990-91 and wrote regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. He was also an advocate for physician assisted dying who participated in several US court cases, including presenting an amicus brief before the US Supreme Court and the Florida State Supreme Court. This book is his memoirs, describing his remarkable life and wisdom acquired as a person with C2-3 quadriplegia, paralyzed from the shoulders down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Approaching Old-Old<\/strong> Rambling Poem<\/strong> by Nail Chiodo (pseudonym of Luigi Attardi) www.nailchiodo.com<\/a> The booklet can be ordered from: I\u2019ll See Myself out, Thank You<\/strong> This book contains essays which cover every aspect of the topic, from the legal and religious issue to the deeply personal experiences of patients and carers. Among the contributors are doctors, philosophers, priests, writers and politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Edited by Colin Brewer and Michael Irwin Assisted Dying – Who Makes the Final Decision? \u201cThis book is dedicated to all those who have travelled to Dignitas to be given help to die. It is also dedicated to the countless other people who have suffered intolerable because they could not have that same compassionate help to die in the UK….”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Edited by Lesley Close and Jo Cartwright John’s Final Journey – You can have my seat on the way back!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n John Close died at DIGNITAS on May 26th 2003. This affectionate biography is written by his younger sister and published as an ebook to mark the tenth anniversary of his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author: Lesley Mary Close Damned if I do This book<\/a> is the revealing and personal story of Philip Nitschke, physicist, medical doctor and activist \u2013 the man behind Australia\u2019s controversial pro-euthanasia movement, told in his own words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authors: Philip Nitschke with Peter Corris Doctor, Please Help Me Die<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tom Preston, medical doctor, presents a thorough overview and discussion of end-of-life issues and physician-assisted death in America and how most doctors fail their patients by not discussing dying with them \u2013 and by refusing to consider legal physician aid in dying ultimately deceiving the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher: iUniverse, January 2013
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An essay on a family\u2019s experience by Thalia Williamson (Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A memoir of Love and Loss
by Amy Bloom (Link<\/a>)
Penguin Random House, New York
ISBN 978 1 78378 799 9
first published in 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A family\u2019s experience, in two blog articles<\/a> by Debra Bunce (pdf)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A Compassionate, Widely-Available Option for Hastening Death<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oxford University Press
ISBN 978-0-19-008073-0
first published August 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A novel about the final curtain call of life
by Uniting Church elder Everald Compton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Medical aid in dying (MAID) is legal in eleven US jurisdictions representing one-fourth of the US population, but despite its legality, MAID is practically available to only a subset of qualified patients in these states. MAID\u2019s eligibility requirements and procedural safeguards may impede a patient\u2019s access. (Link to the abstract<\/a>)
Author: Thaddeus Mason Pope, Health Law Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, MI
publ. 2020 in: State Laws, J. Health and Life Sci. L., American Health Law Assoc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Why many people prefer death or active deliverance to living with dementia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Foreword by Henry Marsh
published by Skyscraper Publications, Bloxham, UK
ISBN-13: 978-1-911072-42-3
first published 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Author: Michael Irwin
First published June 2018 (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A Memoir \u2013 Adventures, Music, Animal Rights<\/strong>
by Andrew Tyler
including: Postscript \u2013 Dying with Dignity, by Sara Starkey
Loop Books, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1AW, England
first published 2017
ISBN: 978-1-905327-40-9
Animal Aid Shop<\/a>
2017 Lush Prize Andrew Tyler Award: Video on vimeo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A Memoir<\/strong>
by Roz Chast
ISBN: 978-1632861016
published by Bloomsbury, USA
first Edition June 2014, reprint September 2016
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The Memoirs of Andrew I. Batavia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
ISBN: 978-1-63491-079-8
published by BookLocker.com Inc., Bradenton, Florida, USA
first Edition, April 2016
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Author: Michael Irwin
First published June 2014 (Link \/ PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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being a Farewell Letter in Verse
to Relatives, Friends, and Acquaintances<\/p>\n\n\n\n
original in English; translation into French by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric D\u00e9v\u00e9 and
into Italian by Franceso Dalessandro<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edizioni Empiria
Via Bacchina, 79
00184 Roma, Italia
Tel & fax +39 058 0177 1006
www.empiria.com<\/a> \/ mail@empiria.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Thirty personal views in support of assisted suicide<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skyscraper Publications Limited, Newbold on Stour, UK
ISBN-13: 978-0-9926270-9-6
First published 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The case for greater choice at the end of life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Foreword by Sir Terry Pratchett
Peter Owen Publishers, London and Chicago
ISBN 978-0-7206-1014-7
First published 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Kindle Edition, 1st edition May 2013; available on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The autobiography of Philip Nitschke<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
ISBN: 9780522861419
published September 2013, 208 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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ISBN-10: 1475963793
ISBN-13978-1475963793<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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