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Instytucje, organizacje i blogi

Assisted-Dying Blog – „Weblog of Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society & author of Final Exit, serving the rights of competent, terminally ill adults for 30 years”.

Association pour le Droit de mourir dans la dignité - Letzebuerg – „ADMD-L, Association pour le Droit de mourir dans la dignité - Letzebuerg” is an independent non-political, non-confessional body, defending the rights of every individual to determine his/her end of life treatment and wish for dying in dignity. Founded in 1988 by Dr Henri Clees, ADMDLcounts today some 900 members”.

Campaign for Dying in Dignity – „We are a national campaign and membership organisation with over 25,000 active supporters campaigning to legalise assisted dying, within upfront safeguards, for terminally ill, mentally competent adults”.

Christians For Voluntary Ethanasia – „The group’s principal activity will be sending letters to Members of the Parliament of South Australia and making it known that many committed Christians support choice for voluntary euthanasia, holding it to be consistent with Jesus' message of love and compassion”.

Compassion & Choices – „Compassion & Choices is the leading nonprofit organization committed to helping everyone have the best death possible. We offer free counseling, planning resources, referrals and guidance, and across the nation we work to protect and expand options at the end of life”.

Care Not Killing – „Care Not Killing is a UK-based alliance of individuals and organisations which brings together disability and human rights groups, healthcare providers, and faith-based bodies, with the aims of:

  1. promoting more and better palliative care;
  2. ensuring that existing laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are not weakened or repealed;
  3. influencing the balance of public opinion against any further weakening of the law”.

Death with Dignity National Center – „The mission of the Death with Dignity National Center is to promote Death with Dignity laws based on our model legislation, the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, both to provide an option for dying individuals and to stimulate nationwide improvements in end-of-life care”.

DIGNITAS – „«DIGNITAS – To live with dignity - to die with dignity» is an association in accordance with Swiss law and was founded on 17 May 1998 at Forch (near Zurich). The organisation, which pursues no commercial interests whatsoever, has in accordance with its constitution the objective of ensuring a life and a death with dignity for its members and of allowing other people to benefit from these values”.

Dying with Dignity Canada – „We are a national, member-based charity committed to helping people achieve quality in dying. We help people understand all end-of-life options and work for choice in dying for all Canadians”.

End-of-life Law and Policy in Canada – „«End-of-life Law and Policy in Canada» is a website designed to serve as a source of information for the –public, healthcare providers, the media, and policy-makers. On this site, we provide information on advance directives, potentially life-shortening symptom relief, the withholding and withdrawal of potentially life-sustaining treatment, terminal sedation, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Our goal is to contribute to understanding of and participation in public policy debates about some of the most pressing issues of our time – how ought we to care for the dying”.

Exit International – „Exit International is a leading end-of-life choices (voluntary euthanasia/ assisted suicide) information & advocacy organisation”.

Final Exit Network – „We hold that mentally competent adults who suffer from a fatal or irreversible physical illness, from intractable physical pain, or from a constellation of chronic, progressive physical disabilities have a basic human right to choose to end their lives when they judge the quality of their life to be unacceptable”.

Friends at the End – „Friends at the End is a members' democratic society, dedicated to promoting knowledge about end-of-life choices and dignified death. Friends at the End is a member of both the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, which links 46 Right to Die Societies in 25 countries, and Right to Die Europe, the World Federation's European Division. Together, these serve globally those working for individual rights to self-determination at life's end”.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Humanes Sterben – „Since being founded in 1980 the DGHS has battled for its major target, the realiziation of the human right of self-determination until the end of life. More than once it had to stand its ground against resistance. The DGHS' work is based on the concept of education and humanism closely connected to provisions for one's old age and to one's personal responsibility”.

West Australia Voluntary Euthanasia Society – WAVES is an incorporated not-for-profit organisation, founded in 1980 by members of the community who believed that every mentally competent person should, with appropriate safeguards, have a legal right to determine the time and manner of his or her death (voluntary euthanasia) and that a medical practitioner should be able to carry out this request.

World Federation of Right to Die Societies – „The World Federation of Right to Die Societies, founded in 1980, consists of 49 right to die organizations from 26 countries. The Federation provides an international link for organizations working to secure or protect the rights of individuals to self-determination at the end of their lives”.

YourLastRight.com – „YourLastRight.com is the peak body for aid-in-dying law reform in Australia. It is the national alliance of State and Territory dying-with-dignity and voluntary euthanasia societies”.

 
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