More Essays, Articles, & Reports
More Essays, Articles, & Reports
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- “Lobby Day 2017 — Reflections”, by Susan Harris, Ed.D. An essay describing her first experience in lobbying members of the New York State Senate and Assembly, as part of a Compassion and Choices campaign, for passage of the Medical Aid in Dying Act. She also relates the personal experience that led her to become an advocate. The essay is available in our library.
- “Somebody with a Backbone: Tips for Choosing a Health Care Proxy”, a blog post by Ellen Goodman, founder of the Conversation Project. This interview/post highlights some of the personal choices that need to be made in choosing a health care proxy. It is available at: http://theconversationproject.org/tcp-blog/somebody-with-a-backbone-tips-for-choosing-a-health-care-proxy/ At the end of the post there is a link to a more general discussion of choosing, and also being, a health care proxy.
- “Bringing Death Out of the Closet”, by Jeff Baltes and Bonnie Edelstein, CommUNITY, April, 2016. This article, presented for the LGBQT community, reviews the proposed New York Medical Aid in Dying Act and introduces the work of Death With Dignity–Albany. Available in our library.
- “Oregon’s Experience with Aid in Dying”, by Barbara Coombs Lee, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, July 2014. This article, written by the president of Compassion and Choices, reviews data and scientific investigations on the operations of Oregon’s experience with its 1994 Death with Dignity Act. Available at compassionandchoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/5-2-BCL-Annals-rebuild-12-2014.pdf