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Index - U

UHCDA (Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act), 87

Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, 33, 36

Uniform Determination of Death Act, 9

Uniform Health Care Decisions Act (UHCDA), 80, 87

Unitarian Universalist Association, 14

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), 32, 36, 37t, 38t, 39t

United States
     beliefs about death, 3
     causes of death, 21, 22t, 23t-24t
     infant mortality rates, 41
     life expectancy, 148t
     physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, 78
     sex ratio, 149t
     spina bifida rates, 44
     suicide, 61-62, 61t, 62f, 63f

UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing). See United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)

Urban rates of suicide, 62, 63f

USCDA (Uniform Health Care Decisions Act), 80

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