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
Oregon Federal Court Settlement Allowing Non-Residents to Access Physician Assisted Suicide
Caucuses
Websites
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Blog by Alex Schadenberg (EPC)
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
A matter of trust in a healer and caregiver
Assisted suicide in Minnesota? Critics point to Canada as cautionary tale.
Pledge to ‘do no harm’ and say no to physician-assisted suicide by Amy Smith
Our View: Don’t ignore concerns over end-of-life suicide law
Aid-in-dying would worsen health care inequities by Jesse Bethke Gomez
Why we doctors oppose legalization of physician-assisted suicide by Dennis O’Hare
Editorial: Minnesota lawmakers should kill physician-assisted suicide bills
Heed history’s warning on aid in dying by Senator John Hoffman
Letter: Medical aid in dying is suicide
End-of-Life Option Act is not health care
End-of-life law would burden health workers
Letter: End-of-life act presents opportunities for abuse
Minnesota Doctor’s View: Physician-assisted suicide contradicts the purpose of health care
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.
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.