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Chapter 20 Dying and Death

Association for Death Education and Counseling: Provides resources for education, counseling, and caregiving related to dying, death, grief, and loss.

Bereavement and Hospice Support Netline: Supplies a national directory of bereavement support groups, listed by state and type of bereavement.

Choice in Dying: Provides information about right-to-die issues and supplies advance directives that meet specific state requirements.

The Compassionate Friends: Offers support to people grieving the death of a loved one, especially children; site contains information on regional support groups, lists of books on death and dying, and suggestions for coping with grief.

Death and Dying Grief Support: Offers comfort, support and education about issues surrounding death; site includes message boards, information about legal issues, and special pages for children and teens.

DeathNet: Advancing the Art and Science of Dying Well: Provides information about right-to-die issues from all points of view.

The End of Life: Exploring Death in America: Information and links relating to end-of-life issues; based on a National Public Radio series.

Growth House: A gateway to Internet resources on life-threatening illness and end-of-life issues.

Hospice Foundation of America: Provides information about hospice care and selecting a local hospice.

Kearl's Guide to Sociological Thanatology: Provides resources related to sociocultural aspects of death.

Longwood College Library Physician-Assisted Suicide Page: Information about physician-assisted suicide and links to related sites.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Making a Will: Basic information and links about preparing a will.

National Funeral Directors Association: Provides consumer resources related to funeral costs, arranging funerals and memorial services, and bereavement support.

National Hospice Organization: Provides information about hospice care and supplies a national directory of hospices listed by state and city.

Oregon Health Division: Provides information about Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, which allows physician-assisted suicide in certain cases.

Project on Death in America: Promotes an understanding of issues related to the culture and experience of dying.

Organ Donation

The following sites provide information about organ donation:

Coalition on Donation

National Kidney Foundation

Transplant Recipients International Organization

United Network for Organ Sharing

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Organ Donation

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