RIGHT-TO-DIE MINNESOTA

POSSIBLE PROGRAMS

   Right-to-Die Minnesota offers more than 30 presentations and discussions
for any organizations in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
These programs are available for classes in medical ethics,
adult education, right-to-die organizations, churches, social clubs,
and in-service continuing medical education.
As you read thru the list of possible programs below,
which would be most interesting for groups you know about?

    All basic content of each possible program
already exists in written form on the Internet.
The titles below link to these complete written texts.
But the in-person presentations will not be a reading of these words.
Rather, the presentations will be informal,
with frequent pauses for questions and comments.

    The Green letters D or N after some titles
mean Discussion and Newsworthy.
If your group loves to discuss, choose a D subject.
If you plan to invite the news media, choose an N subject.

    Individuals are also invited to read these on-line essays
on their home computers
and to offer their responses by e-mail.



MEDICAL ETHICS

Losing the Marks of Personhood:
Discussing Degrees of Mental Decline . D

Advance Directives for Medical Care:
24 Important Questions to Answer .  D

Fifteen Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions .

Medical Futility Monitor:
Avoiding the Million-Dollar Death .  D N

Better Cooperation between the Hospice Movement and the Right-to-Die Movement .   D  N

Do I Lose the Right-to-Die When I Lose Consciousness?

The Living Cadaver:
Medical Uses of Brain-Dead Bodies .  D N

The Dead-Donor Rule:
How Dead Do You Have to Be?   D N

Voluntary Execution Followed by Organ Donation .  D N

Depressed?
Don't Kill Yourself!



THE RIGHT-TO-DIE

The One-Month-Less Club:
Live Well Now, Omit the Last Month .  D N

Choosing Your Date of Death:
How to Achieve a Timely Death
—Not too Soon, Not too Late .    D

Completed Life or Premature Death?      D

One Million Chosen Deaths per Year?  D N

The Number of People Reviewing a Life-Ending Decisions
Using the 26 Recommended Safeguards .  D

Taking Death in Stride: Practical Planning .  D

Will this Death be an "Irrational Suicide" or a "Voluntary Death"? .  D N

Will this Death by a "Mercy-Killing" or a "Merciful Death"? .  D N

Four Medical Methods of Managing Dying .  D N

Five Medical Methods of Managing Dying.  D N

<>Comfort Care Only:
Easing the Passage into Death.  D N

<>Terminal Sedation:
Dying in Your Sleep---Guaranteed .  D N

<>Pulling the Plug:
A Paradigm for Life-Ending Decisions  .  D N

VDD:
Why Giving Up Water is Better than other Means of Voluntary Death .  D N

Voluntary Death by Dehydration:
Safeguards to Make Sure it is a Wise Choice  .  D N

Gentle Poison:
The Demand for Quick Death.  D N

<>Do We Already Have the Right-to-Die?
Medical Methods of Managing Dying.  D N

<>A New Way to Secure the Right-to-Die:
Laws Against Causing Premature Death .

Two Approaches to Right-to-Die Laws:
Granting Permission and Banning Harms .

Interpreting Laws Against 'Assisting Suicide' .   D N

Better than Capital Punishment?   D N

The Brain-Death Protocol for Voluntary Execution followed by Organ Donation .    D N

God Will Decide When Life Will End:
We Should Not 'Play God'    C D
ELECTRONIC WAYS TO USE THESE ON-LINE ESSAYS

    If your group has an e-mail list or a Facebook Page
here is another way to use these Internet presentations:
Before the meeting,
send the synopsis and outline of the scheduled talk
to your complete list of members.
(Each talk linked above begins with a synopsis and outline for that theme.)
You might also include the link to the complete text.
This will get the participants ready to discuss the subject.
And it will allow the face-to-face gathering to spend less time on presentation
and more time exploring the issues of greatest interest
to the people who attend the meeting.

    If your group exists only in cyber-space,
distribute the electronic text and begin the discussion.
James Park would be glad to join in any such electronic discussions.

    An electronic gathering is also an option for groups
too distant from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
for the speaker to travel there in person.

    Local right-to-die groups, medical associations, college classes, etc.
are also welcome to read the written version of any talk to the group,
with appropriate pauses for discussion.
The written texts may also be printed out and distributed,
as long as the author's copyright is acknowledged.
And if wish, you can send written questions to the author:
James Park, e-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

    This is also the address to arrange a talk.
If you have other themes you would like addressed,
don't hesitate to ask.
For example, much more could be said
about safeguards for life-ending decisions.

    Most of these themes have already been shared electronically
with a world-wide Facebook Group called
The Right to Die with Dignity.
And the themes that are included in How to Die
have been discussed in another Facebook Group called
Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions.

    James Park is also available for panels and debates
that would include presenters with contrasting views.

    More public discussion of the right-to-die
will make these end-of-life options more acceptable.


Created April 19, 2008; Revised 3-12-2011; 3-25-2011; 4-22-2012; 7-8-2013; 3-21-2014; 2-9-2018;

Go the opening page for RIGHT-TO-DIE MINNESOTA.

Many of the talks listed above have now been incorporated into a new book:
How to Die: Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions.

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