Advanced Directives
- AZ State Attorney General Health POA Form:
https://www.azag.gov/sites/default/files/docs/seniors/life-care/2023/LCP-Healthcare-POA.pdf - Compassion and Choices Guide and Toolkit:
https://www.compassionandchoices.org/resource/eoldgt - Dementia Directives:
https://dementia-directive.org/ - Final Exit Network (FEN) Advanced Directives for Dementia:
https://finalexitnetwork.org/advance-directives-for-dementia/ - National Institute of Health (Aging):
https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/advance-care-planning/advance-care-planning-advance-directives-health-care
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Books
Final Exit 2020
Published 2002, the revised, 3rd edition of the bestseller "Final Exit" describes the ways in which a dying person may consider hastening the end of their life if suffering is unbearable. Laws and ethics are outlined in a straightforward fashion. Drug dosage tables and the latest inert gas technique of 'self-deliverance' are explained, with illustrations
Published 2002, the revised, 3rd edition of the bestseller "Final Exit" describes the ways in which a dying person may consider hastening the end of their life if suffering is unbearable. Laws and ethics are outlined in a straightforward fashion. Drug dosage tables and the latest inert gas technique of 'self-deliverance' are explained, with illustrations
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Hard copy and paperback available on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Exit-Practicalities-Self-Deliverance-Assisted/dp/0385336535 |
Digital copy available on FEN website:
https://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/ebooks-c-67/final-exit-2020-digital-edition-p-208.html |
How to Get the Death You Want
A comprehensive manual for those reaching the end of life, and for their friends, relatives, advocates, and caretakers. Abraham describes in detail the challenges faced by those who wish to avoid months or years of painful treatment after losing hope of ever recovering any reasonable quality of life.
Paperback and Kindle version available on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Death-You-Want/dp/0942679407
Paperback and Kindle version available on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Death-You-Want/dp/0942679407
The Peaceful Pill Handbook
Available for purchase on Amazon and TPPH website:
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Co-authored by a physician and a lawyer, the Peaceful Pill Handbook is the leading self-help, voluntary euthanasia/ voluntary assisted dying guide book that enables Seniors and people who are seiously ill to undertake informed planning around their end of life choices. Written in easy-to-understand lay language, The Peaceful Pill Handbook explains approaches that are reliable and peaceful. The Peaceful Pill Handbook covers 14 topics including: useful drugs such as the barbiturates (including administration, testing and shelf life), traditional prescription drugs, poisons and other substances including the inorganic salts, the use of gases (such as nitrogen, argon and helium), devices such as the carbon monoxide generator, the ‘Korean method’ and the Sarco euthanasia capsule that was exhibited at Venice Design in 2019. Swiss assisted dying services such as Pegasos Swiss Association are also explained in detail including what to expect, family considerations and costs. All strategies are rated according to their Peacefulness, Reliability and, where appropriate, Accessibility using Exit's unique RPA Test. The legal issues pertaining to each method are also discussed.
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Communications & Useful Tools
Medical Team
Family and Friends:
Family and Friends:
- Discussions
- Ethical Will
- Goodbye letters (Sample final letters)
- NOK box and other organizers
Death Doulas
- AZ Community Death Care:
https://www.azcommunitydeathcare.org/ - Death Doulas by AZ cities:
https://everloved.com/death-doulas/AZ/ - Death Doula Directory by State:
https://deathdoulas.com/arizona - International End-of-life Doula Association:
https://inelda.org/about-doulas/what-is-a-doula/
Hastening Life's End: Methods and Options
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Methods and Options
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MAID available:
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More on MAID...
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Other End-of-LIfe Organizations
- AZ EOL Coalition
- Compassion and Choices
- Final Exit Network
- San Diego Hemlock
- The Completed Life Initiative
Post-Death
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Body Disposal
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