Summary: 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 2010Summary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TASTate, 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 TATGreen, 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 GREHumphry, Derek
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hemlock Society 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 HUMBauer, Belinda
Summary: "Felix Pink is a retired widower leading a boring life and hoping to die a boring death. He volunteers as an Exiteer-someone who sits with terminally ill people as they die by suicide, assisting with logistics and lending moral support, then removing the evidence to take the burden off their loved ones. When Felix lets himself in to Number 3 Black Lane, he's there to perform an act of kindness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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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 ORFTaylor-Klaus, Bex
Summary: An older woman with ALS and her husband invite their extended family for a final gathering before she ends her life on her own terms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLABenwell, Sarah
Summary: In Japan, teenaged Abe Sora, who is afflicted with "Lou Gehrig's Disease," finds friends online and elicits their help to end his suffering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster/BFYR 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BENPalmer, Daniel
Summary: "Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die - until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiancé, Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. He begs to die, but Julie sees hope in a life together. With the help of an organization that opposes physician-assisted suicide, Julie has Sam coming around to her point of view when he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack. An autopsy reveals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Palmer 2016Smith, Wesley J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 SMIBrown, Judy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 1995
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 179.7 BRODugdall, R. E
Summary: A psychological thriller that explores the morality of euthanasia traces the high-profile case of probation officer Cate Austin, who confronts an impossible choice when she must recommend the sentence of a woman charged with assisted suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUGRichardson, Peter
Summary: In the state of Oregon the Death with Dignity Act allows terminally ill patients to end their lives with a prescription from physicians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOWSummary: "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 TURKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis and his friend, psychologist Alex Delaware try to find the murderer of a physician known for his work in assisted suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELPeck, M. Scott (Morgan Scott)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 1997
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Summary: "A series of interviews on the topics of end-of-life care and the right-to-die movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 REHSummary: Designed to give users comprehensive conversational language and grammar skills. The basic course (10 lessons) focuses on polite greetings and small talk and is perfect for patrons who are planning a short trip to a foreign country, or for those who want to get a taste of a foreign language and culture. The complete course (100 lessons) is designed for patrons who already know the basics of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Languages 2009
Summary: Questions are answered and truths are revealed. Learn how Henchman 21 copes with life without 24. See what happens when Brock and the Venture family are forced to part ways. Discover the final fate of H.E.L.P.eR. And all the while, the balance of the free world hangs in the hands of Dean Venture, who must kill Hitler.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: More and more Americans are looking for opportunities to exert some measure of control over where and how they die. In this program, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers unravels the complexities underlying the many choices at the end of life, including the bitter debate over physician-assisted suicide. Three patients, their families, and their doctors discuss some of the hardest decisions,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This informative program explores the choices open to terminally ill patients and their families, presenting the options available for comfortable end-of-life care that attends to physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Medical experts and caregivers discuss the difficult choices that arise, including the moral and legal controversies and medical options available when a cure is no longer an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005