6. Medical Ethics

Several files on medical decision-making and end-of-life issues.
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'Living Wills' or Advance Directives for Medical Care

Books on Advance Directives for Medical Care
Reviews of several books explaining Advance Directives.

Your Last Year:
Creating Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care
The table of contents (4 pages) for this new book by James Park.

'Living Will' Workshop:
Writing Our Own Advance Directives for Medical Care
Descriptions (short and long) for a workshop on writing 'living wills'.

Questions for your 'Living Will'
or Advance Directive for Medical Care
24 open-ended Questions to answer in creating an Advance Directive.

James Park's Advance Directive for Medical Care
A comprehensive Advance Directives,
answering each of the 24 Questions. 

A four-page version of James Park's 'Living Will'
A much shorter summary of James Park's Advance Directive.

Portal for Advance Directives for Medical Care
A comprehensive listing of Internet resources.


End-of-Life Issues

Draft Legislation to replace laws against assisting suicide
Causing Premature Death


Medical Futility

BOOKS ON MEDICAL FUTILITY


Health Care Costs

SAVING MINNESOTACARE


Personhood

Personhood Bibliography
 

"When Is A Person? Pre-Persons and Former Persons" ,

a 68-page book.


Organ Donation

Why I Need a New Heart—As Soon as Possible
—a first-person account by Don Moses

Organs from the Executed—by James Park

Questions and Answers about Organ Donation

Timothy McVeigh & Organ Donation

Letter to TIME Magazine by James Park

Letter to TIME Magazine by Don Moses


Medical Ethics—Presentations by James Park


Several similar files are available in the DEATH section of this website.


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