Index

Addictions. See under Medications

Advance directives

absence of

See also Living wills; Medical

proxies

Alpers, Ann

Alzheimer Association

Alzheimer’s disease

See also

Morphine, and double

effect rationale

Euthanasia

Family disagreements

Feeding tubes

Fensterman, Jerry

Final Exit (Humphry)

Final Exit Network

Gawande, Dr. Atul

Girsh, Faye

Glenmullen, Joseph

Hastened death

discussions with doctors about

See also Doctors

questions to ask/discussions

with

effects on survivors

and legal constraints on doctors

options used in the past

Hastened death, continued

and precommitment issue

public opinion concerning

questions concerning

vs. suicide

summary of arguments for

terminal disease as criterion for

See also Helium; Physician aidin-

dying; Refusing/

withdrawing medical

treatment; Refusing/

withdrawing nutrition/

hydration; Turning points at

end of life, hastening death;

under Medications

Helium

obtaining

physiology of use of

Help, asking for

Hemlock USA

Heroin

Hippocratic oath

Hospice care

in other countries

and pronouncing death

Hospitals

emergency rooms

intensive care burn units

Humphry, Derek

Informed consent

Internet

Joint Commission on Accreditation

of Healthcare

Organizations

Lee, Daniel

Legal issues

legality of barbiturate use

when no advance directive

exists

See also Hastened death, and

precommitment issue;

Morphine, and double effect

rationale; Physician aid-indying

Oregon law

permitting; Supreme Court

Living wills

first living wills

and medical proxy document

Lou Gehrig’s disease

Lowenstein, Ed

McAulay, Diana

McStay, Rod

Martens, Evelyn

Massachusetts Committee for the

Living Will

Media

Medical proxies

addenda to medical proxy

documents

family member or friend as

proxy agent

Medical records

Medical system

Medications

addictions to

for anxiety

as hastening death

over-the-counter

side effects

See also Barbiturates; Morphine;

Terminal sedation

Meier, Dr. Diane

Midwife Through the Dying Process

A: Stories of Healing and

Hard Choices at the End of

Life (Quill)

Morphine

and double effect rationale

side effects

Morrison, Dr. R. Sean

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Nausea

Nembutal,

Netherlands

New England Journal of Medicine

Nurses

Nursing homes

Ogden, Russel

Options. See also under

Turning points at end of life

Oregon

Death with Dignity Act.

See also Physician aid-indying

Oregon law

permitting

OxyContin

Pacemakers

Pain management

and Hippocratic oath

pain specialists

staying ahead of pain

See also Morphine; Suffering

Palliative care

at home

and medical futility

and probability issues

settings for

and talking substantively with

patient

See also Turning points at end of

life, choosing comfort care

only

Parkinsonism

Pentothal

Persistent vegetative state

Pharmacists

Physician aid-in-dying

Oregon law permitting

public opinion concerning

using lethal doses of barbiturates

See also Hastened death

Physicians. See Doctors

Physicians Desk Reference

Pneumonia

Porter, Ruth

Privacy

Probate court

Pro-life constituency

Quadriplegia

Quality of life

Questions to ask. See Doctors

questions to ask/discussions

with

Quill, Timothy

Refusing/withdrawing medical

treatment

Refusing/withdrawing

nutrition/hydration

withholding food and fluids from

a demented patient, . See

also Hastened death, and

precommitment issue

See also Dehydration

Religious issues

religious right minority

Rights of patients

absolute/near-absolute

and complexity of treatment

and definition of goals

Schiavo, Michael

Schiavo, Terri

Schindler, Mary and Bob

Seconal

Society for the Right to Die

Somnolence

Spong, John Shelby (Bishop)

Stroke

Suffering

non-physical

and nonterminal conditions

resulting from treatment

See also Pain management

Suicide

and clinical depression

See also Physician aid-in-dying

Supreme Court

Terminal sedation

Transfusions

Turning points at end of life

choosing comfort care only