Satz v. Perlmutter, 103-104
Schiavo, Terri, 10, 111
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), 35f
Seances, 3
Sex ratio, 149t
Smith, Wesley J., 75
Soper, as Director of Newark Developmental Center et al. v. Dorothy Storar, 103
Spina bifida, 44, 48(t 5.6), 49-50
Spiritualism, 3, 10-11
SRTR (Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients), 35f
States
absence of advance directives, 82-83
advance directives, 79
artificial nutrition and hydration statutes, 89f, 90f
interest in preserving life, 102, 104, 109, 110, 112-113
living wills, 79-80, 80f
organ donation programs, 36
physician-assisted suicide statutes, 113
power of attorney for health care and combined advance directive legislation, 91t-98t
pregnancy restriction in living will statutes, 81f
State Initiatives in End of Life Care: Policy Guide for State Legislators (National Conference of State Legislatures and the Center to Improve Care of the Dying), 86-87
suicide rates, 58t-60t, 61-62, 61t, 62f
surrogate decision-making statutes, 88f
Statistical information
Alzheimer's disease, number of persons with, 147t
Alzheimer's disease prevalence, 147f
anencephalus rates, 48(t 5.5)
cancer, probability of developing, 142t
cancer incidence and mortality rates by site and race/ethnicity, 143t
Cerebrovascular disease by sex, age and race/ethnicity, 144t-145t
comparison of hospital, skilled nursing facility, and hospice Medicare charges, 123(t 9.6)
consumer price index for health care components, 118t
death rates for heart diseases, 139t-141t
deaths, mortality rates, and life expectancy by race, 45t
federal spending on AIDS, 128t-129t
health care expenditures, 116t
home health care patients, 124f
home health care patients by services received, 125(t 9.10)
hospice care discharges by diagnoses at admission, 6t
hospice care discharges by length of stay, 5t
infant mortality, 42t-43t, 44t, 45t
leading causes of death, 22t, 23t-24t
leading causes of death by age, 137t-138t
leading causes of infant deaths, 46t-47t
life expectancy, 148t
low birthweight and premature infants, 49t-50t
low birthweight infants, 51t-53t, 54t
Medicaid hospice care, states offering, 124t
Medicaid payments, by type of service, 123(t 9.8)
Medicaid recipients and vendor payment by eligibility basis and race/ethnicity, 122t
Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities or end stage renal disease, 127f
Medicare benefit payments by type of service, 123(t 9.7)
Medicare certified hospices, 123(t 9.5)
Medicare enrollees and expenditures by type of service, 120t-121t
Medicare home health care spending, 125(t 9.11)
nation's health dollar, 119f
Netherlands, end-of-life practices in the, 70t
nursing home residents by age, sex, and race, 126t
organ donor causes of death, 40t
organ donors by organ and donor type, 39t
organ transplantation waiting lists, 37t
patient attitudes toward and experiences with euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, 69t
persistent vegetative state patients, physician responses concerning withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for, 32t
persistent vegetative state patients, physicians' treatment of, 31t
physician-assisted suicide, characteristics of patients requesting and receiving, 19t
physician-assisted suicide, patient-related factors in, 20t
physician attitudes toward euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, 67t-68t
population projection, 136t
public opinion about an afterlife, 152f
public opinion on legality of physician-assisted suicide, 156f
public opinion on suicide, 154t, 155f
Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Emergency (CARE) act awards, 130t-131t, 132t-133t
sex ratio, 149t
spina bifida rates, 48(t 5.6)
suicide, 58t-60t
suicide and youth, 64t-65t, 155f
suicide rates for urban and rural counties, 63f
teens' self-assessed likelihood of dying from particular causes, 153(f11.5)
teens' time spent thinking about death, 153(f11.4)
transplants by organ and donor type, 38t
Storar, Dorothy, 103
Stroke, 138-139, 144t-145t
Subjective test for removing life-sustaining treatment, 105
Substituted judgment, 102-103
Suicide
death rates for suicide, by sex and race/ethnicity, 58t-60t
elderly, 142-143
gay and lesbian adolescents, 64-65
international aspects, 60-61
public opinion, 154, 154t, 155f
urban vs. rural rates, 62, 63f
youth, 62-65, 64t-65t, 155, 155 f
Superintendent of Belchertown State School et al. v. Joseph Saikewicz, 102-103
SUPPORT (Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments), 21-22, 25-26
Supreme Court, U.S.
clear and convincing evidence standard for removal of life-support, 110-111
physician-assisted suicide cases, 111-113
Surrogate decision makers, 18, 86, 88f, 90f
Switzerland, 78
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