PREFACE
There is no point going out in a lot of misery in my view of the endgame. I have watched too many suffer a great deal in their passing, and have over time pulled together a collection of thoughtful, informative, and compassionate articles, links, and quotes, for those who might wish to consider a less painful, more peaceful alternative for both themselves and those who love them ~ Michael Holshouser
FINAL EXIT
Final Exit
Wikipedia: Final Exit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Exit
QUOTES
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice ... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life ~ Seneca
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma ~ Jack Kevorkian
Your much-loved father-in-law, Gaius Julius Caesar, died this afternoon. As you know, he has been suffering from a malignancy in the throat for some time. And this afternoon he fell on his sword. He chose the best alternative, as I’m sure you will agree. No man should linger to be a burden to his loved ones, especially when it detracts from his dignity and integrity as a man. Is there one among us who prefers life to death when life mean lying in one’s own excrement, or being cleaned of their excrement by a slave? No, when a man cannot command either his bowels or his gorge, it is time to go ~ Publius Rutilius Rufus (In a letter to Gaius Marius in The First Man in Rome, an historical fiction book by Colleen McCullough)
ONLINE ARTICLES
In 'The Suicide Plan,' Frontline Explores Hidden World of Assisted Suicide
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/11/the-suicide-plan-frontline-explores-organized-world-of-assisted-suicide.html
Weighing the End of Life
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/opinion/sunday/weighing-the-end-of-life.html?_r=0
When Prolonging Death Seems Worse Than Death
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162570013/when-prolonging-death-seems-worse-than-death
Passing thoughts at L.A.'s first Death Cafe
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beat-death-cafe-20130415-dto,0,7511397.htmlstory?track=lat-pick
How Rear Adm. Chester Nimitz Jr. and Joan Nimitz Chose to Die
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/06/death_with_dignity_joint_suicide_of_rear_adm_chester_nimitz_jr_and_joan.html
Deciding to Die, Then Shown the Door
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/deciding-to-die-then-shown-the-door/?_r=0
A Better Way to Die
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/a-better-way-to-die/276724/?google_editors_picks=true
Suicide (1897)
http://durkheim.uchicago.edu/Summaries/suicide.html
Cremation: The New American Way of Death
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/06/13/cremation-the-new-american-way-of-death/?xid=gonewsedit&google_editors_picks=true
Americans Seriously Unprepared for Long-Term Care, Survey Finds
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/04/as-boomers-age-most-woefully-unprepared-for-long-term-care.html
Helping Make the Best of the End of Life
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/helping-make-the-best-of-the-end-of-life/278039/?google_editors_picks=true
The Top 5 Things to Do When a Loved One Is Dying
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-johnson/death-of-a-loved-one_b_3668193.html
My Mother Deserved to Die Comfortably
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/my-mother-deserved-to-die-comfortably/281146/?google_editors_picks=true
Is Funeral Home Chain SCI's Growth Coming at the Expense of Mourners?
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-24/is-funeral-home-chain-scis-growth-coming-at-the-expense-of-mourners
Life Lessons From Dad: Caring for an Elderly Parent
http://online.wsj.com/articles/life-lessons-from-dad-caring-for-an-elderly-parent-1403886423?google_editors_picks=true
'Going to Switzerland' Is a Euphemism for Assisted Suicide
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/going-to-switzerland-is-a-euphemism-for-assisted-suicide/379182/?google_editors_picks=true
Coverage for End-of-Life Talks Gaining Ground
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/health/end-of-life-talks-may-finally-overcome-politics.html?_r=0
India has highest number of suicides in the world: WHO
http://zeenews.india.com/news/health/health-news/india-has-highest-number-of-suicides-in-the-world-who_1465051.html
Suicide kills one person worldwide every 40 seconds, WHO report finds
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/04/suicide-kills-every-40-seconds-who
How to Make a Living in the Death Industry
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/how-to-make-a-living-in-the-death-industry/380536/?google_editors_picks=true
Fighting to Honor a Father’s Last Wish: To Die at Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/nyregion/family-fights-health-care-system-for-simple-request-to-die-at-home.html?_r=0
Next: Assisted Suicide for Healthy People
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-m-appel/assisted-suicide-for-heal_b_236664.html
Why I Hope to Die at 75
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/
Nearing death, two people offer a journalist and caregiver life lessons
http://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-me-c1-caregiver-20141218-story.html#page=1?track=lat-pick
The Fallacy of 'Giving Up'
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/dying-better/384626/?google_editors_picks=true
Nothing prepares you for being the daughter of ageing parents
The Right to Die
How we die should be a personal choice, not the government's
http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-cap-assisted-suicide-20150223-column.html?track=lat-pick
Why Immortality Is Overrated
www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/04/513110234/why-immortality-is-overrated
Want to Live a More Fulfilled Life? Avoid the Number One Regret of the Dying
www.inc.com/scott-mautz/avoid-the-number-one-regret-of-the-dying-to-live-a-more-fulfilled-life.html
The Death and Life of John Shields
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/world/canada/euthanasia-bill-john-shields-death.html?_r=0&mtrref=query.nytimes.com&gwh=CB9225AFB3C572B6D2E760F9152718E5&gwt=pay
111 terminally ill patients took their own lives in first 6 months of California right-to-die law
www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-end-of-life-act-20170627-htmlstory.html
It's time to talk about suicides among middle-aged men
www.independent.co.uk/voices/chester-bennington-chris-cornell-suicide-men-middle-aged-a7854476.html
Suicide rate hit 40-year peak among older teen girls in 2015
www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/teen-suicide-cdc-study-bn/index.html
An unforeseen benefit of California's physician-assisted death law
www.latimes.com/health/la-me-end-of-life-care-20170821-htmlstory.html
Suicide Statistics
https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
theconversation.com/with-teen-mental-health-deteriorating-over-five-years-theres-a-likely-culprit-86996
Literal death machine offers a way to peacefully slip out of existence
https://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2017/12/05/literal-death-machine-offers-way-peacefully-slip-existence/
Oklahoma plans to use new execution method
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/health/inert-gas-death-penalty-oklahoma-bn/index.html
This Strange Syndrome Causes People to Think Their Loved Ones Have Been Replaced by Impostors
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-strange-syndrome-causes-people-to-think-their-loved-ones-have-been-replaced-by-impostors
When do you know you're old enough to die? Barbara Ehrenreich has some answers
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/07/barbara-ehrenreich-natural-causes-book-old-enough-to-die
Your Body is a Teeming Battleground
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/barbara-ehrenreich-natural-causes/556859/
'I’m Not Happy. I Want to Die.' Australia's Oldest Scientist Will Travel to Switzerland for Assisted Suicide
time.com/5260855/australia-david-gooddall-euthanasia/
US suicide rates increased more than 25% since 1999, CDC says
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/health/suicide-report-cdc/index.html
CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tvnews/cnns-anthony-bourdain-dead-at-61/ar-AAyo1er
Radical ideas: Dying isn’t as bad as you think
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/dying-isnt-as-bad-as-you-think/
All-American Despair
For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/suicide-rate-america-white-men-841576/
Suicide among teens and young adults reaches highest level since 2000
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/suicide-among-teens-and-young-adults-reaches-highest-level-since-2000
Isolated And Struggling, Many Seniors Are Turning To Suicide
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/27/745017374/isolated-and-struggling-many-seniors-are-turning-to-suicide
I planned to kill myself at 27 – now I’m 28. Here’s what happened
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/15/kill-myself-bipolar-disorder-tortured-genius-kurt-cobain
Suicides and homicides on the rise in young people
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/suicides-homicides-rise-young-people-n1067786
How to Recognize When a Loved One May Be Considering Suicide, and the Best Ways to Help
https://people.com/health/how-to-recognize-when-a-loved-one-may-be-considering-suicide-and-the-best-ways-to-help/
Your Brain 'Shields' Itself from the Existential Threat of Death
https://www.livescience.com/brain-shields-idea-death.html
Hart Island, New York's public cemetery, prepares for new era, more diverse burials
Experts hope LGBTQ youth will call 988 — a new suicide lifeline number
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/06/988-suicide-prevention-hotline-lgbtq-youth/
How to plan a funeral without breaking your budget
https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2022/09/29/tips-saving-funeral-costs/
INFORMATIVE WEBSITES
Most Lethal Methods of Suicide
http://lostallhope.com/suicide-methods/statistics-most-lethal-methods
Suicide Statistics
https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
MOVIES & DOCUMENTARIES
Frontline: The Suicide Plan
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/suicide-plan/
Netflix: The Suicide Plan
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Frontline-The-Suicide-Plan/70263486?strkid=980689414_0_0&strackid=22a869493a9cfba7_0_srl&trkid=222336
Wikipedia: You Don't Know Jack (film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don%27t_Know_Jack_(film)
Netflix: You Don't Know Jack
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/You-Don-t-Know-Jack/70126831?strkid=519762934_0_0&strackid=2b083599575d9cea_0_srl&trkid=222336
Wikipedia: Wit (film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wit_(film)
Netflix: Wit
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Wit/60020871?strkid=341449102_0_0&strackid=2fa702b3f4a5188e_0_srl&trkid=222336
Wikipedia: The Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(2006_documentary_film)
Netflix: The Bridge
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/The-Bridge/70059028?strkid=116758470_3_0&strackid=2e5f8a78572a7078_3_srl&trkid=222336
Frontline: The Suicide Tourist
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/suicidetourist/
Wikipedia: Suicide Tourism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_tourism
Netflix: The Suicide Tourist
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Frontline-The-Suicide-Tourist/70135303?strkid=1914148766_1_0&strackid=7e163b29eea31963_1_srl&trkid=222336
Wikipedia: The Leisure Seeker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leisure_Seeker
Novel: The Leisure Seeker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leisure_Seeker_(novel)
Netflix: The Leisure Seeker
https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/The-Leisure-Seeker/80189169
BOOKS
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
http://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Gets-Your-Eyes-Crematory/dp/0393240231?tag=viglink20242-20
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The Conversation
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
WIKIPEDIA
Final Exit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Exit
Euthanasia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia
Compassion & Choices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_%26_Choices
Assisted Suicide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide
Inert Gas Asphyxiation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation
Suicide Bag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bag
Hemlock Society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemlock_Society
Wikipedia: How to Die in Oregon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Die_in_Oregon
Wikipedia: Death With Dignity Act – Oregon Ballot Measure 16 (1994)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Ballot_Measure_16_(1994)
Lethal Injection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection
Hippocratic Oath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
Wikipedia: Suicide Tourism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_tourism
Wikipedia: List of Suicide Sites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_sites
Wikipedia: Suicide Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bridge
Wikipedia: Lover's Leap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lover%27s_Leap
Wikipedia: Copycat Suicide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide
THE SUICIDE PROJECT
The Suicide Project
The Suicide Project: The Helium Hood Method
http://suicideproject.org/2010/07/helium-hood-method/#comments
MENTAL ILLNESS
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
https://www.nami.org/About-NAMI/Join-NAMIC_uwQAvD_BwE
bphope
Sleepy Phoenix
https://www.facebook.com/AnnChristensen.SP/
NEPTUNE/TRIDENT SOCIETY & OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
Neptune Society
http://www.neptunesociety.com/
Trident Cremation Services
http://www.tridentsociety.com/
Modesto Neptune Society
(209) 521-6722
711 Fifth Street
Modesto, CA 95351
Final Exit Network
http://www.finalexitnetwork.org/
Wikipedia: Final Exit Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Exit_Network
Dignitas
http://www.dignitas.ch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=44&lang=en
Wikipedia: World Federation of Right to Die Societies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Federation_of_Right_to_Die_Societies
THE GUN SHOP OWNER
The Gun Shop Owner
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/12/us/cnn-guns-project/gun-shop-owner.html
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
https://www.afsp.org/
WIKIPEDIA
Views on Suicide
Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide
Altruistic Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruistic_suicide
Benevolent Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_suicide
Copycat Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide
Suicide Epidemic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_epidemic
Euthanasia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia
Suicide Legislation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_legislation
Philosophy of Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_suicide
Religious Views on Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_on_suicide
Right to Die
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_die
Suicide Crisis
Suicide Crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_crisis
Assessment of Suicide Risk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assessment_of_suicide_risk
Crisis Hotline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_hotline
List of Suicide Crisis Lines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines
Suicide Intervention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_intervention
Suicide Prevention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_prevention
Suicide Watch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_watch
Suicide Types
Assisted Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide
Bullying and Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying_and_suicide
Copycat Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide
Familicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familicide
Forced Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_suicide
Honor Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_suicide
Internet Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_pact#Internet_variants
Mass Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_suicide
Murder-Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder–suicide
Prisoner Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_suicide
Suicide Pact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_pact
Suicide Attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack
Suicide Methods
Suicide Methods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_methods
Inert Gas Asphyxiation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation
Suicide Bag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bag
Suicide Booth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_booth
Euthanasia Device
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_device
Suicide Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bridge
Lover's Leap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lover%27s_Leap
Charcoal-Burning Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal-burning_suicide
Suicide by Hanging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_hanging
Suicide by Cop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_cop
Seppuku
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku
Epidemiology
Epidemiology of Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_suicide
Teenage Suicide in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_suicide_in_the_United_States
Youth Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_suicide
Suicide among Native Americans in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
Suicide Among LGBT Youth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_among_LGBT_youth
Gender Differences in Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide
List of Countries by Suicide Rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
History
History of Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_suicide
List of Suicides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicides
Suicide in Antiquity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_antiquity
List of Suicides in the 21st Century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicides_in_the_21st_century
In Warfare
Suicide Attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack
Banzai Charge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzai_charge
Kamikaze
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze
Suicide Mission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_mission
Related Phenomena
Suicide Attempt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attempt
List of Suicide Sites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_sites
Suicidal Ideation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicidal_ideation
Self-Harm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-harm
Suicide Note
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_note
Suicide Terminology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_terminology
By Country
Suicide in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States
Assisted suicide in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide_in_the_United_States
Euthanasia in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_in_the_United_States
Organizations
World Federation of Right to Die Societies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Federation_of_Right_to_Die_Societies
Compassion & Choices
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_%26_Choices
Death with Dignity National Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_with_Dignity_National_Center
Dignitas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignitas_(Swiss_non-profit_organisation)
Exit International
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_International
Final Exit Network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Exit_Network
Hemlock Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemlock_Society
Church of Euthanasia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Euthanasia
Miscellaneous Articles
Final Exit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Exit
End-of-Life Care
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-life_care
Voluntary Euthanasia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_euthanasia
Euthanasia Device
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_device
Asphyxia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphyxia
Lethal Injection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection
Terminal Illness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_illness
Advance Healthcare Directive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_healthcare_directive
Do Not Resuscitate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_resuscitate
Hippocratic Oath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
Suicide Tourism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_tourism
Advocacy of Suicide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy_of_suicide
Kübler-Ross Model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kübler-Ross_model
GOOGLE SEARCH
Google Search: Final Exit
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=final+exit&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Google Videos: Final Exit
Google Images: Final Exit
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=final+exit&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=final+exit&tbm=vid
Google Search: Death and Dying
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=death+and+dying&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Google Images: Death and Dying
Google Videos: Death and Dying
https://www.google.com/search?q=death+and+dying&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1019&bih=716&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4-8PQ-O3MAhVH1WMKHZUODVAQ_AUICigE&dpr=2
UNITED STATES
Medical Aid in Dying in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_aid_in_dying_in_the_United_States
Palliative Care in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Palliative_care_in_the_United_States
Hospice care in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospice_care_in_the_United_States
Hospices in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hospices_in_the_United_States
OREGON
How to Die in Oregon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Die_in_Oregon
Death With Dignity Act – Oregon Ballot Measure 16 (1994)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Ballot_Measure_16_(1994)
CALIFORNIA
California End of Life Option Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_End_of_Life_Option_Act
How the California End of Life Option Act Works
californiadeathwithdignity.org/end-of-life-option-act/
Information on the End of Life Option Act
coalitionccc.org/tools-resources/end-of-life-option-act/
California lawmakers approve right-to-die legislation
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-lawmakers-approve-right-to-die-legislation/
California legislature approves bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/11/us-usa-california-assistedsuicide-idUSKCN0RB2LC20150911
111 terminally ill patients took their own lives in first 6 months of California right-to-die law
www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-end-of-life-act-20170627-htmlstory.html
An unforeseen benefit of California's physician-assisted death law
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Death With Dignity Advocate Brittany Maynard Dies in Oregon
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Brittany Maynard, Advocate for Death With Dignity, Ends Her Life
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Brittany Maynard, as promised, ends her life at 29
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People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad ~ Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom ~ Marcel Proust
No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide ~ Maggie Gallagher
I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly ~ Albert Einstein (Last words after refusing surgery, on 18th April 1955)
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.' ~ Bill Maher
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia ~ Ezekiel Emanuel
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide ~ Albert Camus
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels ~ Edward Dahlberg
I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life ~ Damien Hirst
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why? ~ Abraham Verghese
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide ~ Cesare Pavese
That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it ~ Anderson Cooper
There is something great and terrible about suicide ~ Honore de Balzac
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse ~ Karl A. Menninger
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical ~ Ezekiel Emanuel
For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries ~ Judy Collins
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death ~ Zane Grey
The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place ~ Paul Watzlawick
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily ~ Paul Westerberg
Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse ~ Sinead O'Connor
One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to ~ Frank Darabont
I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide ~ Joshua Logan
Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick ~ Scott Anderson
It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money ~ Vanilla Ice
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to ~ Eric Burdon
Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction ~ Al Green
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? ~ Jean Genet
I don't persuade to suicide ~ Jack Kevorkian
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide ~ Marilyn Hacker
In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology ~ Chuck Grassley
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight ~ Paul Watzlawick
I have a suicide impulse ~ Hal Holbrook
My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on ~ Lorna Luft
The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river ~ Denise Mina
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave ~ Spalding Gray
Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too ~ Antoinette Perry
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive ~ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal ... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live ~ Peter McWilliams
My Darling Anne, There's a longer letter in the dresser drawer I've been writing for the last week or so, that one covers us, and my memories of us, and how much I've always loved you. This one just covers tonight, and more importantly, today. Tonight I have gone out to the horses to end it. I cannot say sorry for the act itself, although I know for a short time you will be angry at me, or even hate me for it. Please don't. This is not a case of, I came in this world alone and I'm goin' out of it alone, or anything dumb like that. I did not come in this world alone, my mom was there. And I am not goin' out of it alone, 'cause you were there, drunk on the couch, making Oscar Wilde cock jokes. No, this is a case, in some senses, of bravery. Not the bravery of facing a bullet down. The next few months of pain would be far harder than that small flash. No, it's the bravery of weighing up the next few months of still being with you, still waking up with you, of playing with the kids ... Against the next few months of seeing in your eyes how much my pain is killing you. How my weakened body, as it ebbs away, and you tend to it, are your final and lasting memories of me. I won't have that. Your final memories of me will be us at the riverside, and that dumb fishing game, which I think they cheated at. And me inside of you, and you on top of me ... And barely a fleeting thought, of the darkness yet to come. That was the best Anne. A whooole day of not thinking about it. Dwell on this day baby, 'cause it was the best day of my life. Kiss the girls for me, and know that I've always loved you ... And maybe I'll see ya again if there's another place, and if there ain't ... Well, it's been heaven knowing you. Your Boy, Bill ~ Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
