• Course Syllabus

Student Presentations

Schedule

• Causes of Death: US Past and Present, and Other Countries
• The Role of Hospitals and Technology in Our Last Days
• The Meaning of Death: Scientific and Religious
• Evidence for Ghosts and Communication With the Dead
• Suicide
• Randy's Suicide, by William Henry
• Telling Patients with Terminal Illnesses Their Prognosis
• The Stages in the Dying Process: Kübler Ross and her Critics
• Hospices in Kentucky
• Terrorism
• Death Penalty

Links

• Yahoo Death Page
• Yahoo Death Penalty Page
• Yahoo Death Humor Page
• Yahoo Death in Australia Page
• Yahoo Death in the United Kingdom Page
• Yahoo Death in Ireland Page
• Yahoo Death in Canada Page
• Infoseek Death Page
• Centers for Disease Control
• Choice In Dying
• Resources for Death and Dying Courses
• Sociology of Death and Dying Resources
• Quality of Life Links
• Research Sources on Concepts of Self and Person
• Dr. Mo's Bioethics Discussion Pages
• University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics: Physician Assisted Suicide page
• US Supreme Court Decisions
• WASHINGTON et al. v. GLUCKSBERG et al.
• VACCO, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NEW YORK, et al. v. QUILL et al.
• Yahoo Religious Faiths and Practices Page
• Looksmart Religion and Belief Page
• Religious Traditions of the Afterlife, by Kevin Williams
• Buddhism - Religion or Philosophy ? by Michael Holmboe Meyer (warning: page plays music!)
• The Scientific Case Against Immortality, by Keith Augustine
• Yahoo Ghost Page
• GHOSTS Resources by Nerd World Media®
• The Ghost Web
• Paraweb Ghost Page
• DW Waldron's Ghost Page
• Yahoo Suicide Page
• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
• TransWeb:  All About Transplantation and Donation
• MUSC Heart Transplant Program: Selection Criteria
• St. Joseph's Hospital, London: Non-medical Criteria for Transplant
• HEART TRANSPLANTATION AT UCLA
• Advance Directives International (warning: plays music!)
• Voluntary Euthanasia Society of London, England
• Shortcomings of Advance Directives
• Mayo Clinic: Advance directives: Making your wishes
• ADVANCE DIRECTIVES AND OTHER END OF LIFE DECISIONS
• Hospice Net
• Yahoo AIDS/HIV Page
• Yahoo Terrorism Page
• Ethics Updates Page on Death Penalty
• Yahoo Death Penalty Page
• Infoseek Death Penalty Page
• Anti-Capital Punishment Resources from the ASC's Critical Criminology Division

Books

• The Art of Dying: A Guide to the Legal, Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Concerns of Facing Your Death With Dignity and Grace Patricia Weenolsen St. Martin's Press 1997
• The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings and Meditations on Crossing Over Starhawk, Nightmare, the Reclaiming Collective, Harper San Francisco 1997
• To Die Well: A Holistic Approach for the Dying and Their Caregivers Richard Reoch Harpercollins 1997
• Birth to Death: Science and Bioethics David C. Thomasma and Thomasine Kushner (Editors) Cambridge Univ Pr 1996
• Drawing the Line: Life, Death, and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital Samuel Gorovitz Temple Univ Press 1993
• Dying Well (Challenges in Ethics Series) Kenneth L. Vaux, Sara Anson Vaux Abingdon Pr, 1996
• Killing and Letting Die Bonnie Steinbock, Alastair Norcross 2nd Edition Fordham Univ Pr, 1994
• Dilemmas of Life and Death: Hindu Ethics in North American Context S. Cromwell Crawford State Univ of New York Pr 1995
• Prescription Medicide: The Goodness of Planned Death Jack Kevorkian, Prometheus Books 1993
• Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients, and the Dutch Cure, Herbert Hendin W W Norton & Co 1996
• Euthanasia Examined: Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives John Keown (Editor), Cambridge Univ Pr 1997
• Brain Dead, Brain Absent, Brain Donors: Human Subjects of Human Objects? Peter McCullagh John Wiley & Sons 1993
• Contingent Future Persons: On the Ethics of Deciding Who Will Live, or Not, in the Future (Theology and Medicine, V. 9) N. Fotion and Jan Cristian Heller (Editors) 1997
• Physician-Assisted Death (Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society) James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder, Gregg A. Kasting (Editors), Humana Pr 1994
• The Meanings of Death (Canto Series) by John Bowker, Cambridge University Press, 1993
• Life After Death in World Religions (Faith Meets Faith), by Harold Coward (Editor), 1997
• Beyond Death: Theological and Philosphical Reflections on Life After Death by Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Christopher Lewis (Editors), St Martin's Press, 1995
• How Different Religions View Death and Afterlife by Christofer Jay Johnson, Marsha G. McGee (Editors), Charles Press, 1991
• Death and Afterlife: Perspectives of World Religion (Contributions to the Study of Religion, Vol. 33) by Hiroshi Obayashi (Editor), Praeger Press, 1992
• Hello from Heaven!: A New Field of Research-After-Death Communication-Confirms That Life and Love Are Eternal, by Bill Guggenheim and Judy Guggenheim, Bantam, 1996
• After-Death Communication: Final Farewells by Louis E. Lagrand, 1997
• Coming Back: A Psychiatrist Explores Past-Life Journeys by Raymond A. Moody, Bantam, 1992
• The Unquiet Dead: A Psychologist Treats Spirit Possession by Edith Fiore< Ballantine, 1991
• Holy Ghostbuster: A Parson's Encounters With the Paranormal, J. Aelwyn Roberts, 1996
• Paranormal Experience and Survival of Death (SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions), Carl B. Becker, 1993
• 101 Ways to See the Light: How You Can Have a Near-Death Experience, Jerry Biederman Tor Books Format: Mass Market Paperback 1995
• Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spiritualiity: A Postmodern Exploration (SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought), David Ray Griffin, 1997
• Philosophy of Science and the Occult, Patrick Grim (Editor), NYU Press, 1990
• Encounters With the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief, Kendrick Frazier (Editor), Prometheus, 1998
• Science Confronts the Paranormal, Kendrick Frazier (Editor)
• Adolescent Suicide: Assessment and Intervention by Alan L. Berman, David A. Jobes
• American Suicide: A Psychocultural Exploration by Howard I. Kushner
• College Student Suicide by Leighton C. Whitaker, Richard E. Slimak (Editors)
• Cry of Pain: Understanding Suicide and Self-Harm by Mark Williams
• Definition of Suicide by Edwin Shneidman
• Death by Denial: Studies of Suicide in Gay and Lesbian Teenagers by Gary Remafedi (Editor)
• Elder Suicide: Research, Theory, and Treatment by John L. McIntosh, John F. Santos, Richard W. Hubbard
• Making Sense of Suicide: An In-Depth Look at Why People Kill Themselves by David Lester
• No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One by Carla Fine
• Suicide in America by Herbert Hendin
• A Slender Thread by Diane Ackerman
• The Death Debate: Ethical Issues in Suicide by Margaret Pabst Battin
• Ethical Issues in Suicide  by Margaret Pabst Battin
• Suicide: Right or Wrong? (Contemporary Issues Series) (Second Edition) by John Donnelly (Editor)
• Suicide : Opposing Viewpoints (Opposing Viewpoints Series) by Tamara L. Roleff (Editor)

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for additional links from this page.

E-mail me or visit my home page.