Summary: If death comes without suffering, under the care of a physician and requested by an individual who desires peace and closure, what are the grounds for stopping it? This program investigates the various moral, religious, and philosophical perspectives surrounding euthanasia. Highlighting both pro and con arguments in the debate as it has taken shape in the United Kingdom, the video features such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Catherine Frazee, Wesley Smith, Jean Echlin, Bobby Schindler, Adrian Dieleman and Senator Sharon Carstairs ... bring a wealth of personal experience and insight to a society that would be at risk if assisted suicide were legalized. They expose the oversimplification, flaws and myths surrounding safeguards, pain management and suffering."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salt and Light Television Productions 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TUROrfali, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill City Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 ORFPeck, M. Scott (Morgan Scott)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 PECSummary: When André suffers a debilitating stroke and calls on his daughter Emmanuèle to help him die with dignity, she finds herself faced with a painful decision. Based on Emmanuèle Bernheim's memoir and an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, the film's matter-of-factness elicits moments of humor that renders an otherwise weighty topic accessible. Steering clear of the moral arguments such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EVESummary: Tackling an extremely sensitive issue in a vibrant, humorous way, this is the story of Yehezkel and his wife Levana. Well into their 70s, they are living contented lives inside a Jerusalem retirement home. But they are shocked when their dear friend Max falls prey to an irreversible illness. Looking to escape a slow, painful death, Max asks Yehezkel for help to end his suffering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FARGreen, Stefanie
Summary: "Dr. Stefanie Green has been forging new paths in the field of medical assistance in dying since 2016. In her landmark memoir, Dr. Green reveals the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, how the process works, what the event itself can look like, the reactions of those involved, and what it feels like to oversee proceedings and administer medications that hasten death. She describes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREEN, STEFANIE GRETate, Nikki
Summary: "This nonfiction book for teens examines the complex issue of medical assistance in dying from multiple perspectives."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Books Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Magazines, Call number: YA 179.7 TATGrim, Randy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpine Blue Ribbon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 GRIOwen, Margaret
Summary: Kings become outcasts and lovers become foes in The Faithless Hawk, the thrilling sequel to Margaret Owen's The Merciful Crow. As the new chieftain of the Crows, Fie knows better than to expect a royal to keep his word. Still she's hopeful that Prince Jasimir will fulfill his oath to protect her fellow Crows. But then black smoke fills the sky, signaling the death of King Surimir and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OWEPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Two cousins are driven to extremes by the power of love, as one helps his terminally ill wife commit suicide at her request, and the other becomes involved in a passionate affair with his wife's new assistant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICDe Graeve, Koen
Summary: When Mario is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, he and his friends work to legalize euthanasia in Belgium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TIMSummary: In the late 1980s, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian launched a crusade to provide what he considered a humane and dignified option for the terminally ill--assisted suicide. Aided by his loyal friend Neal Nicol, and his older sister Margo Janus, Kevorkian begins offering his "death counseling" services to a grateful and burgeoning clientele. He earns the support of Hemlock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Films 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie You 2010Kevorkian, Jack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 KEVLeif, Natalie
Summary: "An undead teen must find the boy he loves before he loses his mind and body"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Two cousins are driven to extremes by the power of love, as one helps his terminally ill wife commit suicide at her request, and the other becomes involved in a passionate affair with his wife's new assistant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1997
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PICSummary: This documentary follows filmmaker Joe Berlinger on his quest to find Vienna's Dr. Heinrich Gross, the alleged murderer of hundreds of children under the Nazi euthanasia program.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRAQuindlen, Anna.
Summary: A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated euthanasia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1994
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Summary: "The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEMButler, Katy
Summary: "An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magazine piece. This is the story of one daughter's struggleto allow her parents the peaceful, natural deaths they wanted and to investigate the larger forces in medicine that stood in the way. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 BUTHeley, Veronica
Summary: Ellie investigates some mysterious deaths in the community that may or may not be suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Pub Ltd 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELRöder, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freedom Pub. 1995