Challenge in Choice Pre-Sessions DVD:
3-Disc Set
by Compassion & Choices

Retail price: $30.00
This 3-disc set includes all of the Challenge in Choice Pre-Sessions:

• The March of the Religious Right
• Toward an Iron Clad Plan for Dementia
• Unifying Messages in a Polarized World

Length of DVDs: approximately 3 hours

Challenge in Choice Pre-Sessions DVD:
The March of the Religious Right
by Jon Eisenberg & Robert Raben

Retail price: $15.00
Jon Eisenberg, author of "Using Terri," and Robert Raben, principal at The Raben Group, LLC, provide insights into:

• The legacy of Terri Schiavo
• The impact of health decision restriction acts
• Refusal bills (federal and state)
• Framing the issue of end-of-life choices

Length of DVD: approximately 56 min.

Challenge in Choice Pre-Sessions DVD:
Toward an Iron Clad Plan for Dementia
by Dr. Stanley Terman

Retail price: $15.00
Many people fear being caught in the “Catch 22” of dementia. Unwilling to end life prematurely, yet knowing it requires mental competence to take personal responsibility for choosing a peaceful death at the right time. Dr. Terman pondered this dilemma and arrived at a comprehensive, workable plan that satisfies our desires to avoid a life of dementia, and yet protects our loved ones from having to act directly on our behalf.

Length of DVD: approximately 52 min.

Challenge in Choice Pre-Sessions DVD:
Unifying Messages in a Polarized World
by Steve Hopcraft

Retail price: $15.00
• Thirty percent of the population thinks progressively about aid in dying.
• Thirty percent is steadfastly against choice at the end of life.
• Forty percent must be persuaded.

What truths, data and messages resonate with the undecided 40 percent and build the crucial consensus needed to legalize aid in dying? Steve Hopcraft, campaign director for the California Compassionate Choices Act, talks about the language and messages that won the hearts and minds of legislators on who were on the fence, and even some of those who thought they were opposed.

Length of DVD: approximately 56 min.

Challenge in Choice Total Sessions DVD:
14-Disc Set
by Compassion & Choices

Retail price: $150.00

Set includes all Challenge in Choice Pre-Sessions and Regular Sessions:

• The March of the Religious Right
• Toward an Iron Clad Plan for Dementia
• Unifying Messages in a Polarized World
• Insights from Inside the Terri Schiavo Case
• People With Disabilities and Aid-in-Dying
• The Case for A Dignified Death in the U.K.
• The Art in Death
• The Truth Behind Rhetoric
• Dying is No Big Deal
• The Story of Evelyn Martens
• Nudging the Law
• Censorship & Talking About End of Life Choice
• End of Life Choice, Hospice and Oregon
• Debating Expanding Choice at the End of Life

Length of DVDs: approximately 13 hours

Choices at the End of Life: Finding Out What Your Parents Want Before It’s Too Late
by Linda Norlander & Kerstin McSteen

Retail price: $14.00
Written by two specialists in end-of-life care, this book underscores the importance of understanding and recording family members’ preferences concerning the end of life. It provides discussion strategies for family and physicians, as well as a guide to creating advance directives. Also includes a list of useful resources and a glossary of frequently used terms.

Compassion & Choices Magazine: Advance Directives Resource Issue
by Compassion & Choices

Retail price: $5.00
The summer 2005 issue of Compassion and Choices Magazine is a complete toolkit for anyone with questions about living wills and advance directives for health care. Detailed articles explain the documents involved and the issues many people will wish to cover when creating their advance directive. Includes a glossary of terms and easy-to-understand steps.

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Compassion in Dying: Stories of Dignity & Choice
by Barbara Coombs Lee

Retail price: $12.00
Edited by Barbara Coombs Lee, president of Compassion & Choices, this eloquent collection of accounts of death and dying embodies the heart of the choice-in-dying philosophy. Presented honestly and with sincerity, we hear from the dying, their loved ones and acquaintances who shared this last chapter.

Death without Denial, Grief without Apology
by Barbara Roberts

Retail price: $12.00
From Publishers Weekly: “Roberts’s overriding message is that there isn’t one right way to express sorrow and that people should be allowed to use whatever rituals or comforts they need, for as long as they need, without censure. Formerly governor of Oregon, Roberts tells the story of her husband’s death from lung cancer simply, unhesitatingly, and without wallowing in bathos.” Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Dying Beautifully—Making the Most of the Time You Have Left
by Dave Karpowitz

Retail price: $24.95
This sensitive guide, in a workbook format, is a mixture of stories, exercises, meditations, and perspectives from experts that touch on the toughest subjects. How do you tell your loved one that you are dying? What do you say when someone is diagnosed with a terminal? We owe it to our loved ones to read this book.

Dying Unafraid
by Fran Johns

Retail price: $17.95
This inspiring book is a collection of stories of individuals who faced death without fear. Without pop psychology or religious intonations, it addresses tough questions including aid in dying through interviews the author conducted with friends and dying patients she met as a hospice volunteer.

Hard Choices for Loving People
by Hank Dunn

Retail price: $7.00
Author Hank Dunn, a nursing home and hospice chaplain for 17 years, covers the most common medical treatment decisions faced by those who are living with a life-threatening illness. CPR, artificial feeding, hospitalization, dialysis, pain control, hospice and other issues are considered in depth.

How to Care for Aging Parents
by Virginia Morris

Retail price: $23.00
This thoroughly researched guide to informed care for the aging offers assistance to caregivers who must make difficult decisions for their parents. Subjects covered include the aging body, home care, nursing homes, dementia, guilt and more. It includes a valuable reference section with information about helpful organizations.

Last Wish
by Betty Rollin

Retail price: $13.50
Journalist Betty Rollin chronicles her mother’s two-and-a-half year battle with ovarian cancer, from the diagnosis to her decision to end her unrelenting pain and nausea through hastened death. The details of Rollin’s role in helping to carry out her mother’s last wish by providing information, support, and the means necessary to act upon the decision are widely known.

Light in the Shadows: Meditations While Living with a Life—Threatening Illness
by Hank Dunn

Retail price: $7.00
Hank Dunn spent 17 years as a chaplain in a nursing home and a hospice program. He gathers the most helpful insights he learned from patients. This book is about finding hope in hopeless situations; being grateful in the midst of great losses; experiencing a connection to things eternal; living a meaningful life while considering the possibility of death; and getting to the root issues in medical treatment decisions.

Patient-Directed Dying: A Call for Legalized Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill
by Tom Preston, MD

Retail price: $17.95
This book is a manifesto calling for mercy and reason in helping terminally ill patients die peacefully. Dr. Preston shows how outdated cultural attitudes block understanding of modern medical processes of dying, and why patients should be able to direct their own dying. He gives compelling reasons why aid in dying is ethical, is not suicide and should be legal.

Physician-Assisted Dying
by Timothy Quill, M.D. and Margaret Battin

Retail price: $26.95
A distinguished group of physicians, ethicists, lawyers and activists come together to present the case for the legalization of physician-assisted dying for terminally ill patients who voluntarily request it. Contributors examine ethical arguments concerning self-determination and the relief of suffering; analyze data from Oregon and the Netherlands; assess the legal and ethical responsibilities of the physician; and discuss the roles of pain, depression, faith, and dignity in this decision.

Talking About Death
by Virginia Morris

Retail price: $14.95
Most of us hope that if we don’t die in our sleep at ninety-nine, we’ll die comfortably at home, surrounded by loved ones. But people often die surrounded by strangers, unprepared emotionally or spiritually. Author Virginia Morris says that we can change this, that we can make death gentler, and even meaningful. But to do so, we must learn about it and prepare for it now, before we actually face it.

Talking about Death, A Dialogue between Parent and Child
by Earl A. Grollman

Retail price: $17.00
How do you explain the loss of a loved one to a child? This book is a compassionate guide for adults and children to read together. It features a read-along story, answers to questions children ask about death, and a comprehensive list of resources and organizations that can help.

The Best Way to Say Goodbye
by Dr. Stan Terman

Retail price: $30.00
When people know they can control when they die—they can, and often do—choose to live longer, and with less anxiety and worry. This book details the emotional, practical, clinical, legal, moral, ethical, spiritual, religious and political aspects of voluntary refusal of food and fluid (VRFF), which is a peaceful, legal option for competent adults. Details are provided to empower proxies to overcome challenges to honoring last wishes.

The Quality of Life
by Janet Lembke

Retail price: $22.95
When Janet Lembke’s mother was 78 years old, she made her daughter promise to help her die. When the time came, a series of strokes had rendered her mother incapable of rational thought, making the pledge impossible. Watching her mother suspended in a life that wasn’t really living, Lembke began to wonder what could be done. The book examines death by choice—aid in dying; advance medical directives; the bioethics of withdrawal of life support; dementia and how to cope with it; hospice; and the quality of life.

Using Terri: The Religious Right’s Conspiracy to Take Away Our Rights
by Jon B. Eisenberg

Retail price: $24.95
The Terri Schiavo case was a key battle in a larger political struggle over autonomy—aid in dying, gay rights, the appointment of federal judges, stem-cell research and other issues. The neoconservatives chose to make it a national spectacle because they thought they could win. They were wrong. “Using Terri” exposes the strategies and follows the money trail to reveal how theses groups are organized, who is funding the movement, and where we can expect future legal maneuvers to restrict autonomy and freedom.

When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death
by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown

Retail price: $5.95
This illustrated book addresses the various types of death children may be exposed to, such as war, an ailing or elderly family member, or an accident. It covers common feelings children have, such as anger and sadness, and suggests things they can do to “work through” the experience and keep the memory of the person who has died “alive.”