LINKS OF INTEREST

Arizona Legislators - House - Senate

Compassion & Choices - National

Arizona Advance Directive Registry - Register your advance directives online with the Arizona Secretary of State. Note that you cannot upload them, you must mail in paper copies. There is no charge for this service.

Free Advanced Directives from the Arizona Attorney General's office.

CARE:  Clergy About Recognizing End-of-life.  A group of religious leaders in the greater Arizona community who wish to express their concern for those who are dying in terminal illness.

Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (ERGO!).  Their website contains a wealth of information on the subject.

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization provides state-specific living wills and medical powers of attorney (advance directives).

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation studies on end of life issues.

Seniors Resource Guide for Phoenix area and Tucson area. A guide to senior housing, health-at-home services, healthcare providers, and other senior services.

Arizona Organ Donor Registry - How to donate your organs for transplant or research.

Funeral Consumers Alliance - protecting a consumer's right to choose a meaningful, dignified, affordable funeral.

Funeral Ethics Organization - promoting ethical dealings in all death-related transactions.

The Alcor Life Extension Foundation of Scottsdale, Arizona.  This non-profit organization offers a very different end-of-life choice:  cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen in the hopes that future technology will be able to return a person to youth and health.

Oregon Death with Dignity Act.  Complete text of current law which was originally passed as Measure 16 by Oregon voters in 1994, which finally went into effect on October 27, 1997, and which was subsequently amended by the Oregon legislature.  Grants the right of terminal patients to request a lethal prescription from a physician.  Patients must be residents of Oregon.

Washington v. Glucksberg, complete text of the U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the right to die, issued June 26, 1997.  Appealed from the 9th Circuit ruling in the Washington State case.

Vacco v. Quill, complete text of the U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the right to die, issued June 26, 1997.  Appealed from the 2nd Circuit ruling in the New York case.

The loyal opposition: California Disability Alliance.