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This article is a comprehensive and pretty neutral guide to Euthanasia. It explains everything from the history and legality by country to the pros and cons of euthanasia.

This webpage is an independent pro/con website weighing the issues of assisted suicide. This site contains definitions, polls, real life examples, and just a myriad of pages that helps form opinions on euthanasia.

Patrick Goodenough discuses how much of a human right euthanasia is to someone of a certain age or illness. He argues that isn't not just a right but a personal choice.

This article presents two different sides to the issue of euthanasia. One side argues it can help create a happier and less miserable society. The other side argues that it can be dangerous, inhumane and counterproductive to modern medicine.

This websites lists and justifies the right to euthanasia. The list has 62 points for this personal right.

Giving the rights to people who look death in the face and want to shorten the time they have to suffer. Euthanasia gives people the right to die with dignity in which they choose to take their own lives'.

This page is a general reference for euthanasia which cites specific U.S. court cases on the topic.  It contains an even pro vs. con list that shows the facts of both sides without picking a side. 

Despite having aborting in the web address, this essay is about euthanasia and why this author views it as being wrong. His main reason for not supporting it is that he believes it would be used by people to be rid of their elderly or sick family members so they can instead spend money and time elsewhere.

Should patient assisted suicide be legalized for suffering patients? This webpage offers several articles that speak on this issue.

"Because of the added risk of misunderstanding or overriding the patient's wishes, there is currently less support for euthanasia than for physician-assisted suicide. Nonetheless, both requests do occur and physicians need to know how to respond to either type of request"

Website provides the pros and cons on ten issues dealing with assisted suicide. There is also a lot of great info in the links on the left side. One has comments from medical doctors stating why they believe in assisted suicide or not and there is another where visitors to the site can do the same. Information about stances on assisted suicide throughout history and in other countries are also on the left side.

Article is about two cases of euthanasia and those that assist in suicide.

Vermont has legalized assisted suicide. Article gives brief explanation of process for patients to seek euthanasia.

In this article it discusses people view on assisted suicide. People who are for assisted suicide believe it saves money, saves them personally from unnecessary suffering, and lets the individual determine their own faith. They believe is should be done with a physicians help.

A hot topic after the recent rise in mental health awareness is weather or not suicide should be legal/assisted. This author talks about terminally ill patients and, patients with chronic pain that has no relief. Should they be given the choice? How would we decide who gets to choose and who does not?

this article shows us the debates of assisted suicide I the sense of someone being hospitalized and being medically treated but has chance of dying. the article shows us arguments of if the person that being hospitalized is in great pain or on the last stages of dying they have the right to ask for the plus to be pulled. now reading this article you feel in sense of who is right and who is wrong in the issue and if these patients should have that choice or not.

Euthanasia mean should a person suffering from an illness be able to decide when they die? The web site demonstrates all the pros and cons to what assisted suicide is.

I have never really looked into this topic and realized that it is an issue, so I love reading more about it.

If someone is very ill and there is nothing that anyone can do to help they should have the right end there own lives. It's horrible having to live long days, suffering and waiting for your life to end.

This article talks about the process of assisted suicide and how it has been successful in the neatherlands

The site gives the information of the four states that have legalized physician assisted suicide. Each state has their own restriction and guidelines when PAS is accepted. The legal age is usually 18 except in the case of Montana where no legal protocol have been put into place. In the other 46 states and DC it is illegal and usually considered as manslaughter or second degree murder.

Contains information on what states did and did not as well as which ones are debating for Physician-Assisted Suicide to be legalized. Clear-cut and organized information to know what the rest of the country is doing with this law and its dos and don'ts.