| NOTE: This guide was last updated on January 13, 2004. It was created for a former staff member and is no longer being maintained. |
Journal/newspaper articles Web sites Books Television Doctor Assisted Suicide
Making End-of-Life Decisions NPR Series Explores Debate over Use of Life-Sustaining Techniques. Date of programs: December 16-30, 2003.
End of Life Decisions "Death With Dignity" law has yet to usher in a wave of assisted suicide. NPR's Richard Knox. Date of program: August 1, 2003. reports.
Switzerland Assisted Suicide Emma Jane Kirby reports from Zurich that Switzerland is attracting terminally ill patients who want to end their lives. Assisted suicide is not strictly legal in Switzerland, but is widely tolerated. Date of program: September 19, 2002
Physician-Assisted Suicide an hour-long program with Terry Gross on "FreshAir". Program consists of three segements, each an interview with an Oregon physician, one of whom has terminal cancer. Date of program: April 16, 2002.
Physician-Assisted Suicide Revisted on "Justice Talking". Date of program: February 4, 2002.
Compassion or Killing: Doctor Assisted Suicide on "Justice Talking". Date of Program: April 12, 1999
Assisted Suicide Revisited Justice Talking--Exploring Legal Controversies That Challenge Our Nation's Conscience, a program presented 2/04/1999
Last Rights: The Struggle Over the Right To Die Liane Hansen interviews Sue Woodman, author, on Weekend Edition Sunday. Date of program: November 8, 1998.
End of Life Death in America from NPR's All Things Considered from 1997/98 various dates
Doctors on Assisted Suicide Morning Edition. Date of Program June 27, 1997. NPR's Joanne Silberner asked some doctors how they deal with these daily questions of life and death, pain and morality.
Physician-Assisted Suicide Debate. Talk of the Nation. Host: Ray Suarez. Guests: Dr. Ira Bylock and Professor Margaret Battin. Date of program: March 10, 1997.
Physician-Assisted Suicide. Talk of the Nation. Host: Ray Suarez. Guest: Dr. Herbert Hendin, Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients, and the Dutch Cure. New York: Norton, 1997. Date of program: January 8, 1997.
The Kevorkian Verdict: The Life and Legacy of the Suicide Doctor Frontline. Date of Program May 14, 1996. (Includes audio interviews between Kevorkian and four patients and families)
Euthanasia. Talk of the Nation. Host: Ray Suarez. Guest: Dr. Stephen Jamison Final Acts of Love: Families, Friends, and Assisted Dying Date of program: February 21, 1996.
