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End of Life and Pain Management Resources

• Dying Well: www.dyingwell.org is a wonderful website on better end of life and palliative care hosted by Ira Byock, M.D, author of a book with the same title.
• Americans for Better Care of the Dying: www.abcd-caring.org
• Vermont Alliance for Ethical Health Care: www.vaeh.org
• Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) www.capc.org
• The Education for Physicians on End-of-life Care (EPEC) project www.epec.net
• On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying - End-of-Life Tools: www.thirteen.org/onourownterms
• Finding Our Way: www.findingourway.net A website for dialogue, which began with a groundbreaking series of articles, "Finding Our Way: Living with Dying in America," premiered in the fall of 2001 in newspapers across the country.

• American Pain Foundation: www.painfoundation.org (Resources for people living with pain- not just an end of life resource site)