Resources

Videos, links to research, and other valuable resources are available here.

Alliance Legislative One Pager

Alliance Legislative One Pager – Spanish

American Medical Association’s Opposition to Assisted Suicide

2023 Legislative Agenda & Current Alliance Partners

2021 Alliance letter of support for PCAs and the Palliative Care Advisory Council

2021 Alliance letter of support for the Veteran Suicide Prevention Initiative

Who Represents Me in the Minnesota Legislature?

Legal

Letter to Attorney General Ellison on Changes to Oregon’s Residency Requirement for Physician Assisted Suicide

Oregon Federal Court Settlement Allowing Non-Residents to Access Physician Assisted Suicide

Caucuses

2022 Caucus Resolution

2022 Candidate Questionnaire

Find Your Caucus Location

Websites

Patients Rights Action Fund

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Blog by Alex Schadenberg (EPC)

Not Dead Yet

Books

Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine Is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality, by Charles C. Camosy

Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization, by Kevin Yuill

Bird on an Ethics Wire: Battles about Values in the Culture Wars, by Margaret Somerville

Do You Call This A Life? Blurred Boundaries in the Netherlands Right-to-Die Laws, by Gerbert van Loenen

Why You Shouldn’t Kill Yourself: Five Tricks of the Heart about Assisted Suicide, by Susan Windley-Daoust

Films

“Fatal Flaws: Legalizing Assisted Death”, DunnMedia, 2018. Available to rent for $5 and purchase for $25

“The Euthanasia Deception”, DunnMedia, 2016. Available to rent for $3 and purchase for $25.

“Shining the Light on Assisted Suicide”, The Dignity Mandate, 2018. Free online.

 

Partner Stories

Physician-Assisted Suicide is Not the Help Minnesotans Need

Pandemic Reveals Unethical Bias

Legislative Proposals for Physician-Assisted Suicide Degrade the Trusting Relationship Patients have with their Providers

Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide is Not an Answer for People like me who have a Disability

Research

National Council on Disability 2019 Report on “The Danger of Assisted Suicide Laws”

Angela S. Guarda, Annette Hanson, Philip Mehler and Patricia Westmoreland, “Terminal anorexia nervosa is a dangerous term: it cannot, and should not, be defined“, Journal of Eating Disorders, 2022.

Jean Jacob MathewsDavid HausnerJonathan AveryBreffni HannonCamilla ZimmermannAhmed Al-Awamer, “Impact of Medical Assistance in Dying on palliative care: A qualitative study“, Palliative Medicine, 2020.

Cory Ingram, “Compassionate Care? What are we getting into?“, Minnesota Medicine, 2016.

Daniel P. Sumasy, Ilora Finlay, Faith Fitzgerald, Kathleen Foley, Richard Payne, and Mark Siegler, “Physician-Assisted Suicide: Why Neutrality by Organized Medicine is Neither Neutral Nor Appropriate“, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2018.

David Albert Jones and David Paton, “How Does Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide Affect Rates of Suicide?” Southern Medical Journal, 2015.

David Albert Jones, “Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Guide to the Evidence“, Anscombe Bioethics Centre, updated 2015.

Fabian Stahle MSc, “Moral Disengagement – Mechanisms Propelling the Euthanasia/PAS Movement“, Journal of Ethics in Mental Health, 2017.

Richard M. Doerflinger, “The Effect of Legalizing Assisted Suicide on Palliative Care and Suicide Rates: A Response to Compassion and Choices“, Charlotte Lozier Institute, 2017.

Ryan T. Anderson, “Always Care, Never Kill: How Physician-Assisted Suicide Endangers the Weak, Corrupts Medicine, Compromises the Family, and Violates Human Dignity and Equality“, The Heritage Foundation, 2015.