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09/05/2008
Vatican reopens 'end-of-life' debate 5 Sep 2008, 1345 hrs IST,PTI (The Times of India)
LONDON- Forty years after the concept of brain death was established, the Vatican City has reopened the debate over whether the cessation of all brain functions marks the definitive end of life.
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09/03/2008
Vatican called on to re-open debate on brain death as end of life (Times Online)
The Vatican newspaper has re-opened the debate over whether brain death — defined as the cessation of all brain functions — marks the definitive end of life, as opposed to the moment when the heart stops beating.
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09/07/2008
Nurse’s Notes - Discussing end-of-life health care overlooked (Missoulian)
Advances in medicine in the last 100 years have greatly benefited us in so many ways. Many diseases have been eliminated, and we now have cures for illnesses that used to result in death.
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09/08/2008
End of life ministry brings out best in volunteers (Galveston County Daily News)
The modern hospice movement is a ministry local volunteers say has its own rewards.
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09/07/2008
Statistics of Oregon patients add dimension to end-of-life debate (The Olympian)
Other concerns, such as being a burden on family, pain control or the cost of treatment, are reported by fewer than 40 percent of patients.
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09/07/2008
Statistics of Oregon patients add dimension to end-of-life debate (The Olympian)
Those who choose to use legal, lethal drugs to end their lives typically are cancer patients who are white, educated and have private insurance.
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09/08/2008
Studies Link Lead and Brain Aging (ThirdAge)
The notion that dementia must be understood from a lifespan perspective rather than as an end-of-life condition is beginning to gain traction.
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09/07/2008
Hospice supplies solace (Muscatine Journal)
Melissa Regennitter of the Muscatine Journal MUSCATINE, Iowa — An expanding business is offering resources for those who are faced with incurable illness and end-of-life decisions. Iowa Hospice opened its doors this summer at 119 Chestnut St., Muscatine.
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09/07/2008
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Nurse’s Notes - Discussing end-of-life health care overlooked Advances in medicine in the last 100 years have greatly benefited us in so many ways. Many diseases have been eliminated, and we now have cures for illnesses that used to result in death.
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09/05/2008
Hospice Foundation receives grants (The Monterey County Herald)
MONTEREY — Hospice Foundation received two grants recently in support of its mission to fund local care services and to raise awareness about end-of-life issues. The first grant, $1,000, was received from the H.
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| American Psychological Association: End-of-Life Care Issues and Care - Report examines the role of psychology and psychologists in end-of-life decisions and quality of care issues.Before I Die - A PBS program exploring the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life care in America today. Features real life stories about people who have faced these personal decisions.Death with Dignity National Center - Mission is to expand end-of-life choices and advance the legalization of physician aid in dying.Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life - Seeks to improve care at the end of life through interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and outreach.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - Official site for the psychiatrist who wrote the groundbreaking book The End of Life - Exploring Death in America - Resources for people with life-threatening diseases and transcripts of the radio program, End-of-life Care - End-of-life issues - meeting the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and practical needs of terminally ill patients and their caregivers.End-of-Life Decisions - This message of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America draws attention to end-of-life decisions and encourages action on it.Ethical Issues in Terminal Health Care - Articles and essays on patients' rights, Ethics Committees, the Right-to-Die Debate, and Physician Assisted Suicide.Innovations in End-of-Life Care - This on-line journal features peer-reviewed examples of promising practices in end-of-life care.Last Acts - Campaign to improve care of the dying by coalition of healthcare professional and consumer organizations. News and discussion on death and dying, reports on palliative care, resource directory, free publications, and e-mail newsletter provided.The Leaving Life Questionnaire - A guide to exploring ideas, feelings and experiences related to death and dying, quality of life and suffering, old age,and voluntary euthanasia.On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying - Four-part PBS series by television journalist Bill Moyers that focuses on end-of-life care in the U.S.Project on Death in America - To understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavementResponding to Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State - Discusses the withdrawal of food and fluids from PVS patients without other complicating conditions from a Christian viewpoint.Rites of Passage - Non-profit agency providing services to people with terminal illnesses; education, videos and training on AIDS and death and dying including works by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and Dannion Brinkley.
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