Source Biographies

"Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
Summary of Positions

	Pro	Not Clearly Pro or Con (NC)	Con	None Found (?)
I. Individual	88 (28.9%)	28 (9.2%)	87 (28.6%)	101 (33.2%)
II. Organization	10 (10.4%)	8 (8.3%)	28 (29.2%)	50 (52.1%)

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I. Individual

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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- A -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Aaron, Henry, PhD		?
Ackerman, Felicia Nimue, PhD		NC
Admiraal, Pieter, MD, PhD		Pro
al-Qaradawi, Yusuf, PhD		Con
Aleccia, JoNel, MA		?
Angell, Marcia, MD		Pro
Aramesh, Kiarash, MD		NC
Asch, David, MD, MBA		?
Attaran, Amir, LLB, DPhil, MS		Pro

- B -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Barker, Kim		?
Baron, Charles H., PhD		Pro
Barr, Bob		?
Barua, Ankur, MD		NC
Batavia, Andrew, JD, MS		Pro
Battin, Margaret P., PhD		Pro
Baumrin, Stefan Bernard, PhD, JD		Con
Beach, Mary Catherine, MD		?
Beals, Daniel A., MD		?
Beauchamp, Tom L., PhD		Pro
Beezer, Robert, LLB		Con
Benedict XVI, Pope		Con
Berger, Helena		Con
Bleich, PhD, J. David		Con
Bok, Sissela, PhD		Con
Breitowitz, Yitzchok		Con
Bristo, Marca		?
Brock, Dan, PhD		Pro
Brown, Jerry, JD		Pro
Buchanan, Pat, MA		?
Burke, Monica		Con
Burke, William, MD, PhD		Con

- C -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Calhoun, Byron, MD, MBA		?
Callahan, Daniel, PhD		Con
Callahan, Sidney, PhD		Con
Cameron, Nigel M. de S., PhD		Con
Campbell, Courtney S., PhD		Con
Caplan, Arthur L., PhD		Pro
Carey, Taylor, JD		NC
Cassell, Eric J., MD		Pro
Childs, Annette, PhD		Pro
Churchill, Larry, PhD		NC
Clark, Peter, PhD,		?
Coburn, Tom, MD		Con
Cochrane, Thomas, MD, MBA		Pro
Cohen, Andrew, JD		Pro
Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, DPhil		Con
Cohn, Felicia, PhD		Con
Coleman, Diane, JD		Con
Comstock, Gary, PhD		Pro
Coyle, Nessa, PhD		?
Coyne, Jerry, PhD		Pro
Crisp, Roger, DPhil		?
Crist, Charlie, JD		NC
Curlin, Farr A., MD		Con
Czlonka, Diane		?

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Individuals	Rating	Position
Dalai Lama, PhD		Pro
Das, Bimal Krishna		Con
Davis, Dena, JD, PhD		?
DeGrazia, David, PhD		?
Deigh, John, PhD		?
Delgado, George, MD		Con
Dhammavihari		NC
Dial, Karla		Con
Dick, Rebecca Powers, JD		Pro
Dickey, Nancy W., MD		?
Doerflinger, Richard, MA		Con
Dombrink, John, PhD		?
Donovan, G. Kevin, MD, MA		Con
Douglas, Robert, MD		Pro
Douthat, Ross		Con
Dowbiggin, Ian, PhD		Con
Downie, Jocelyn, SJD, LLM, MLitt, MA		Pro
Drake, Stephen, MS		Con
Dresser, Rebecca, JD		?
Dworkin, Gerald, PhD		Pro
Dworkin, Ronald, MA		Pro

- E -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Emanuel, Ezekiel, MD, PhD		Con
Emanuel, Linda, MD, PhD		NC
Emmering, Jasper, MD		Pro
Ende, Jack, MD		Con
Engelhardt, H. Tristram, Jr., PhD, MD		Pro
Ertelt, Steven		Con
Etzioni, Amitai, PhD		Pro
Eyer, Richard C., DMin		Con

- F -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Fagerlin, Angela, PhD		?
Fenigsen, Richard, MD, PhD		Con
Feucht, Kenneth, MD, PhD		Con
Fieser, James, PhD		?
Finnegan, Joanne		?
Fins, Joseph, MD		NC
Fleck, Leonard, PhD		Pro
Fletcher, Joseph		Pro
Fohr, Susan Anderson, JD		?
Foley, Kathleen, MD		Con
Ford, Chris, MA		Pro
Ford, Peter		?
Frenkel, Dena		?
Frey, R.G., DPhil		Pro
Fuchs, Thomas, MD, PhD		Con

- G -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Ganzini, Linda, MD, MPH		NC
Garfield, Charles, PhD		?
Gasper, Christopher, JD		?
Gawande, Atul, MD, MPH		Pro
Gilmore, Jodie		Con
Girsh, Faye, EdD		Pro
Glick, Shimon, MD		?
Glynn, Kevin, MD		?
Godfrey, David, JD		?
Gold, Martin R., JD		Pro
Golden, Marilyn		Con
Gomez, José H.		Con
Goodall, David, PhD, DSc		Pro
Gorosh, David J., JD		Pro
Gorsuch, Neil, JD, DPhil		Con
Groenewoud, Johanna, MD, PhD		NC
Gyatso, Tenzin, PhD		Pro

- H -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Hall, Mark, JD		?
Hamilton, N. Gregory, MD		Con
Hamlon, Kathi		Con
Hampson, Lindsay		?
Hanson, JJ		Con
Hanson, Kristen		NC
Harvath, Theresa, PhD, RN		?
Hawking, Stephen, PhD		Pro
Helft, Paul, MD		?
Hendin, Herbert, MD		Con
Hentoff, Nat		NC
Hewitt, Hugh		?
Hilberman, Mark, MD		?
Hilliard, Bryan, PhD		Pro
Hillyard, Daniel, PhD, JD		?
Holt, Jim		?
Hopkins, Patrick, PhD		Pro
Housego, Kim		?
Hubert, J.P., Jr., MD		Con
Huffman, Grace, MD		?
Humphry, Derek		Pro

- I -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Irwin, Michael, MPH, MD		Pro

- J -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Jackson, Ann, MBA		?
Jecker, Nancy, PhD		?
John Paul II, Pope		Con
Johns, Fran Moreland, MFA		Con
Johnson, Harriet, JD		Con
Jotkowitz, Alan B., MD		?

- K -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Kamisar, Yale, JD		Con
Kamm, Frances M., PhD		Pro
Kass, Leon, MD, PhD		Con
Kastenbaum, Robert, PhD		?
Kavanagh, Peter, LLB		Con
Kaveny, Cathleen, JD, PhD		Con
Kay, Herma, JD		?
Keown, John, DPhil, PhD		Con
Kerin, Lindy		?
Kevorkian, Jack, MD		Pro
Kimsma, Gerrit, MD, MPh		Pro
King, Patricia, JD		Con
Kirshner, Howard, MD		Con
Koukl, Gregory, MA		Con
Krebsbach, Karen		?
Kristof, Nicholas		Pro
Kure, Josef, DPhil		NC

- L -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Lang, Forrest, MD		?
Langer, Gary		?
Lantos, John D., MD		Con
Lasagna, Louis C., MD		NC
Lassoff-Nentwig, Lisa, JD		?
Lauritzen, Paul, PhD		?
Layman-Goldstein, Mary, RN		?
Lee, Barbara Coombs, JD		Pro
Lee, Gary, MD		Con
Levin, Martin, JD, MPH, MTS		Con
Lewis, Penney, LLM		?
Lindsay, Ronald A., JD, PhD		Pro
Loewy, Erich, MD		Con
Love, Tessa		?
Lowes, Robert, MFA		?
Lynn, Joanne, MD, MS, MA		Con

- M -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Mahar, Caitlin, PhD		NC
Manninen, Bertha Alvarez, PhD		?
Manning, Michael, MD		Con
Markel, Howard, PhD, MD		?
Marker, Rita, JD		Con
Matthews, Merrill, Jr., PhD		?
Maynard, Brittany		Pro
McBrien, Richard		NC
McHugh, Paul, MD		Con
Mehlman, Maxwell J., JD		Pro
Meier, Diane, MD		Con
Meier, Emily, PhD		?
Miles, Steven H., MD		?
Minelli, Ludwig A., LLM		Pro
Miranda, Gonazlo, ThD		Con
Montero, Etienne		?
Moreno, Jonathan, PhD		?
Morgan, William E., DC		?
Morrison, Sean, MD		NC
Morrow, Angela, RN, CHPN		?
Muller, David, MD		Pro

- N -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Neils, Rob, PhD		Pro
Nitschke, Philip, PhD, MBBS		Pro
North, Michael J., MS, MSLS		?
Nuland, Sherwin, MD		Pro

- O -

Individuals	Rating	Position
O'Brien, Mark		Con
O'Neill, Joseph, MS, MPH, MPhil, MD		Con
O'Steen, David N., PhD		Con
of Kos [Cos], Hippocrates		NC
Ogden, Russel, MA		Pro
Okie, Susan, MD		?
Olkin, Rhoda, PhD		Con
Olvera, Robert, MD		Pro
Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje, PhD		NC
Ouellette, Alicia, JD		?

- P -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Pacholczyk, Tadeusz, PhD		Con
Papadopoulou, Nataly, LLM		Pro
Paris, John J., PhD		NC
Parks, Jennifer, PhD		?
Parnis, Stephen, MBBS		Con
Paul, John, II		Con
Pearlman, Robert, MD, MPH		?
Pellegrino, Edmund, MD		Con
Perrett, Roy W., PhD		?
Perry, Joshua, JD		NC
Picard, André		Pro
Pies, Ronald W., MD		Con
Potter, Charles		Pro
Pozzuolo, Joseph R., JD		?
Preston, Thomas A., MD		Pro

- Q -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Quill, Timothy E., MD		Pro
Quindlen, Anna		Pro
Quinn, Mattie, MS		?

- R -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Rachels, James, PhD		Pro
Raymond, Diane, PhD		Pro
Reinhardt, Stephen R., LLB		Pro
Rhodes, Rosamond, PhD		Pro
Riley, Patrick G. D., PhD		?
Rodriguez, Cecilia, MA		?
Rogatz, Peter, MD, MPH		Pro
Runner, George C.		Con

- S -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Sabatino, Charles P., JD		?
Sanminiatelli, Maria		?
Sauer, Pieter J.J., MD, PhD		Pro
Schiavo, Michael		Pro
Schindler, Bobby		Con
Schneider, Carl E., JD		?
Schwarz, Judith Kennedy, PhD		?
Scroggin, John, JD, LLM		?
Shadi, Heydar, MA		NC
Shavelson, Lonny, MD		Pro
Siegle-Izkovich, Judy		?
Siegler, Mark, MD		?
Simmons, Paul D., PhD		NC
Simpson, Kevin		?
Singer, Peter, MA		Pro
Sisson, Paul		?
Smith, Wesley J., JD		Con
Somerville, Margaret, LLB, DCL		Con
Souter, David, LLB		NC
Springer, Dan		?
Starks, Helene, MPH, PhD		Pro
Stell, Lance K., PhD		Pro
Sterling, Toby		?
Strauss, Michael J., MD, MPH		NC
Stutsman, Eli, JD		Pro
Subramuniyaswami, Satguru Sivaya		NC
Sulmasy, Daniel, MD, PhD		Con

- T -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Tan, Seow Hon, SJD		Con
Templeton, Sara Kate		?
Thompson, Richard E., MD		?
Toffler, William L., MD		Con
Tollifson, Joan, MA		NC
Tomlinson, Tom, PhD		?
Tribe, Laurence, JD		Pro
Truog, Robert, MD		Pro
Tu, Janet I., MA		?
Tucker, Kathryn L., JD		Pro
Tuffs, Annette, MD		?
Tutu, Desmond, ThM		Pro
Tyson, Peter		?

- U -

- V -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Valentine, Jamie, JD		?
Valko, Nancy, RN		Con
van der Heide, Agnes, MD, PhD		Pro
van Leeuwen, Evert, PhD		Pro
Vander Stichele, Robert, MD		?
Verhagen, Eduard, JD, MD		Pro
Vincent, Steven		?
Volokh, Eugene, JD		?

- W -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Walker, Robert M., MD		?
Wallace, Craig		Con
Wallace, Mike		Pro
Wenstrup, Brad, DPM		Con
White, Ben, DPhil		Pro
White, Michael, JD		Pro
Willems, Dick, MD, PhD		?
Williams, Mary, JD		Pro
Willmott, Lindy, PhD, LLM		Pro
Wolf, Leslie, JD, MPH		Con
Wolf, Susan, JD		Con
Wood, Erica F., JD		?
Woodman, Sue		?

- X -

- Y -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Youk, Terry		Pro
Young, Paul B., MD, MA		Con
Young, Robert, PhD		Pro

- Z -

Individuals	Rating	Position
Zohar, Noam, PhD		Pro
Zucker, Marjorie, PhD		?

II. Organization

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

- # -

Organizations	Rating	Position
60 Minutes		?

- A -

Organizations	Rating	Position
AARP		?
ABC News		?
Age Concern		?
Agence France-Presse		?
Albuquerque Journal		?
America's Health Insurance Plans (formerly American Association of Health Plans)		?
American Association of Health Plans (AAHP)		?
American Bar Association (ABA)		NC
American Cancer Society		NC
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)		Pro
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists		?
American College of Pediatricians		?
American College of Physicians		Con
American Ethical Union (AEU)		Pro
American Geriatrics Society		Con
American Medical Association (AMA)		Con
Americas Health Insurance Plans		?
Angus Reid Public Opinion		?
Associated Press (AP)		?

- B -

Organizations	Rating	Position
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)		?
Bioethics Observatory Institute of Life Sciences at the Catholic University of Valencia		?

- C -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Canadian Medical Association		NC
Care Not Killing		Con
CBS News		?
Chabad-Lubavitch		Con
Christian Medical and Dental Associations (CMDA)		Con
CNN (Cable News Network)		?
Compassion & Choices		Pro

- D -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Daily Caller		?
Death with Dignity National Center (DDNC)		Pro
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary		?

- E -

Organizations	Rating	Position
European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR)		Con
Euthanasia.com		Con
Expatica.com		?

- F -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Faith Facts		Con
Family Research Council (FRC)		Con
Federal Office of Justice of Switzerland		NC
FindLaw		?
Focus on the Family		Con
FOX News		?

- G -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Gale		?
Gallup Organization		?

- H -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Harris Interactive		?
Hastings Center Report		?
Hemlock Society (1980-2003)		Pro
Himalayan Academy at Kauai's Hindu Monestary		NC
Hospice Patients Alliance (HPA)		Con

- I -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Islamic Medical Association		Con
IslamiCity.com		Con

- J -

- K -

- L -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Los Angeles Times		Pro
Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies		?
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod		Con

- M -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Merriam-Webster Online		?

- N -

Organizations	Rating	Position
National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC)		Con
National Council on Disability		Con
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization		Con
National Institutes of Health (NIH)		?
National Public Radio (NPR)		?
National Right to Life Committee		Con
New England Journal of Medicine		?
New York State Department of Health		?
New York State Task Force on Life and the Law		Con
New York Times		Pro
Not Dead Yet		Con

- O -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Ohr Somayach Tanenbaum College		Con
Orange County Register		Con
Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS)		NC
Oregonian		Pro
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)		?
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online		?

- P -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Patients Rights Council		Con
Pew Research Center		?
Physicians for Compassionate Care Education Foundation (PCCEF)		Con
PoliceOne.com		?
Porter County Right to Life		Con
Protective Insurance Company		?

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- R -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Rasmussen Reports		?
ReligionFacts.com		?
Reuters		?
RMIT ABC Fact Check		?
Royal Dutch Society for the Advancement of Pharmacy		NC

- S -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy		?

- T -

Organizations	Rating	Position
TIME Magazine		?
Toronto Star		Pro

- U -

Organizations	Rating	Position
United Kingdom National Council of Hindu Temples		Con
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops		Con
University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)		?

- V -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Vanity Fair		?

- W -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Washington Post		?
Washington State Hospital Association		?
Washington Times		?
Wisconsin Department of Health Services		?
World Federation of Right to Die Societies		Pro
World Health Organization (WHO)		NC

- X -

- Y -

Organizations	Rating	Position
Yahoo! Inc.		?

- Z -

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Summary of Positions