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Advance Directives

Living Wills and Medical Agents in South Australia (SAVES link)

Appointing Your Own Legal Agent in South Australia (SAVES link)

Medical Treatment and the Law in South Australia (SAVES link)

Also see Terms and Definitions: Advance Directives

Assisted Suicide

Assisted Suicide in Switzerland (Link -- SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Physician-Assisted Suicide in Dutch Psychiatric Practice (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Also see Terms and Definitions: Assisted Suicide

Australia

The Northern Territory Act (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Voluntary Euthanasia in Australia and the Netherlands (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Cancer, Dying from

Dying of Cancer (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Double Effect

Double Effect

Also "Double Effect" (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Also see Terms and Definitions: Double Effect

Euthanasia, the Case For

The Case for Voluntary Euthanasia (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

The Right to Choose: The Case for Legalising Voluntary Euthanasia Handbook of the South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society (SAVES)

Euthanasia, Responses to Arguments Against

Brief Answers to Five Objections (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

The Fear of Abuse Objection (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Euthanasia, World Practices

The Northern Territory Act (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Voluntary Euthanasia in the Netherlands: From 2000 (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Voluntary Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Prior to 2000 (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Voluntary Euthanasia in the Netherlands - A Research Update (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Hippocratic Oath

The Hippocratic Oath (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

What about the Hippocratic Oath? (Adapted from VES --The Voluntary Euthanasia Society of England and Wales)

Hospice

Hospice Description & History

Comfort & Palliative Care

Netherlands

Voluntary Euthanasia in the Netherlands: From 2000 (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Voluntary Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Prior to 2000 (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Voluntary Euthanasia in the Netherlands - A Research Update (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Opinions on Voluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Medical Opinion in South Australia (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Nursing Opinion in South Australia (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Public Opinion in South Australia (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Oregon

Oregon's Doctor Assisted Suicide Law (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Physician-Assisted Suicide

Assisted Suicide in Switzerland (Link -- SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Physician-Assisted Suicide in Dutch Psychiatric Practice (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Also see Terms and Definitions: Physician Assisted Suicide

Slippery Slope

Background on the Slippery Slope Argument

The Slippery Slope Objection (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

More on the Alleged Netherlands "Slippery Slope" - The MDEL Studies

Terminal Sedation

Terminal Sedation

Also see Terms and Definitions: Terminal Sedation

Termination of Treatment

See Terms and Definitions: Termination of Treatment

Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment

See Terms and Definitions: Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment