Note: This list contains some "do it
yourself" books on hastening death. They are intended to guide
terminally ill individuals whose quality of life has shrunk to nothing.
They are not intended to help depressed people commit suicide. If you are
such a person, we urge you to get professional help or to call a suicide
prevention line, crisis or distress center.
Peter Filene, "In the arms of others: A cultural history of
the right-to-die in America," Ivan R. Dee, (1998) "...illuminates
the unique historical, cultural, and bioethical issues bedeviling
treatment of the terminally ill and assisted suicide in this country."
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S.B. Geis, Ed,. D.E. Messer, contributor, "How shall we die?:
Helping Christians debate assisted suicide," Abingdon Press,
(1997). A range of viewpoints, from conservative to liberal are
covered. Read
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Carrie Gordon, "Prescribing death," Focus on the
Family. This report speculates that the "right to die"
may become "the duty to die" in the future for
elderly, disabled or depressed family members. See: http://www.family.org/resources/itempg.cfm?
Derek Humphry, "Let me die before I wake: Hemlock's book of
self-deliverance for the dying," National Hemlock Society,
(1991). Apparently only available in large print. Read
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Derek Humphry, "Final exit: The practicalities of
self-deliverance and assisted suicide for the dying," Bantam
Doubleday Dell, (1997) " 'Final Exit' is an invaluable book for
those with terminal illness who wish to consider self-deliverance
(hastened death)." Read
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Betty Rollin, "Last wish," Public Affairs (1998)
"...an intimate, fiercely honest memoir of a daughter's struggle
to come to terms with her terminally ill mother's decision to die."
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Geo. Stone, "Suicide and attempted suicide: methods and
consequences," Carroll & Graf, (1999). "This is
essentially a guide on how to commit suicide, or alternatively, stage a
'safe'' suicidal gesture." Read
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ordered by visitors to this web site.
Marilyn Webb, et al., "The good death: The new American search
to reshape the end of life," Bamtam Books, (1997) "...Marilyn
Webb has written the one essential book we all need to understand and
deal with these new realities." Read
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Sue Woodman, "Last rights: The struggle over the right to die,"
Plenum Press, (1998) "This detailed look at the right-to-die
movement is as impressive for its compassion as it is for its scope."
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