Advanced Directives: A Selected Bibliography - includes living wills, guardianships, durable powers of attorney and health proxies. Includes a comprehensive bibliography with a small section on ethnic, cultures, and nations. State University of NY, Buffalo Health Sciences Library

Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life - published by the Institute of Medicine, Committee on Care at the End of Life and edited by Marilyn J. Field and Christine K. Cassel presents a chapter, Cultural Diversity in Decisionmaking About Care at the End of Life Barbara A. Koenig, Ph.D.

Partnership for Caring: America's Voices for the Dying - national nonprofit organization that partners individuals and organizations to improve how people die in our society.

Death, Dying, and Advance Directives in Japan: Socio-Cultural and Legal Point of View - this website offers insights into such subjects as the Japanese traditional and cultural acceptance of death; advance directives as a non-legal document in Japan as well as some unique elements in Japanese advance directives.

Death and Dying: MEDLINEplus - page provides links to various directories, overviews, and organizations.

DeathNet - an international archive specializing in all aspects of death and dying - resources and information from several points of view.

End-of-life care bibliography - June 1999. Under the Veteran Affairs Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA), the largest coordinated education and training effort is conducted for health care professionals in the nation. This monthly bibliography on End of Life Care was prepared by Ginny DuPont, VA Headquarters Library, as part of a VA Library Network (VALNET) effort to identify useful information relating to end of life care issues. There are a number of additional bibliographies on medical and health issues.

End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC) - supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and located at the Medical College of Wisconsin, the EPERC is a central repository for educational materials and information about end of life (EOL) issues.

Longwood College Library: Doctor Assisted Suicide - a web directory that provides resources from different points of view and media coverage of Physician Assisted Suicide.

Project on Death in America - a project on the epidemiology, ethnography and history of dying and bereavement in America. Funded by The Soros Foundation Network, the project brings together resources for those researching end-of-life issues. Site contains recent developments and resource links.

The Centre for Grief Education in Melbourne Australia - is an index to grief & loss sites on the world wide web. Includes a section on Religious, Sociological, Philosophical or Cultural Specific areas of death and dying offers examples of how our perceptions of death are shaped by our lives, religions, societies and cultures.

The Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine - presents a discussion about death, the law of death and how men and women are treated differently in areas such as decisions for incompetent patients, advance directives and constructed preferences.

The Soros Foundation Network - is dedicated to building worldwide open societies. One of the U.S. programs which is funded is the Project on Death in America.

University of Pennsylvania web site on Physician Assisted Suicide - contains Amicus Briefs, legal resources, and advocacy links.

Pain: MEDLINEplus - page provides links to various directories, overviews, specific conditions, resources for management, and organizations.

Beth Israel Medical Center-Pain Medicine & Palliative Care - provides information on pain and palliative care, education, research, and clinical trials, as well as hospice and end of life care.

Hospice Care - North Central Florida Hospice maintains a series of web links on articles, projects, and guidelines on end-of-life and palliative care. There is some direct guidance on cultural issues surrounding death and dying.

Medical College of Wisconsin Palliative Medicine Program - site includes educational and clinical care resources for the care of the dying.

The Cochrane Pain, Palliative Care and Supportive Care Collaborative Review Group - systemic reviews of randomized controlled trials of interventions concerned with pain and palliative care.

The Center to Advance Palliative Care is a national initiative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The mission of the Center to Advance Palliative Care is to increase the availability of quality palliative care services in hospitals and other healthcare settings for people with life-threatening illnesses, their familities and caregivers by providing technical support and resources.