What organizations have some oversight on euthanasia?
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Only legislatures and the courts have control over what laws exist.\n\nAs far as euthanasia, no US states and very few countries allow it. Remember that euthanasia is different than assisted suicide. For euthanasia, the doctor (or whoever) takes the physical action that terminates the life. In assisted suicide, the doctor only provides the means, and the person ends their own life.\n\nIn the US, only Oregon currently has assisted suicide laws. The federal FDA tried to overrule the Oregon legislature, but the courts ruled that it was a matter for the Oregon voters, not the Attorney General, to decide.\n\nSo, as far as organizations that have control over whether one person is allowed to actively kill another, for whatever reason -- the hospital (if any), the state medical licensing board, the appropriate state legislature, and the federal government, in roughly that order. As far as assisted suicide, only the appropriate state legislature.
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I am currently a practicing Physician Assistant and in my first year of school this question was posed to my entire class.  We spent 45 minutes debating it as a class with out professor looking on (and keeping some calm.)  After we finished, he told us the "accpeted" medical position that he found in his practice as a PA-C.  First, as someone else stated, euthanasia is illegal in all states except Oregon (however, I will admit that I do not know the laws of other countries).  What we were told is that if doing certain proceudres or writing certain prescriptions violates our belief system, we are under no obligation to our patient's to perform or prescribe these things.  BUT what we do owe to our patients is to provide them with someone who will help them.  Our role as a health care provider is to help our patients, not to preach our beliefs unto them.  I went to a Catholic university where we were "not supposed" to be taught about abortion and birth control, but of course that is a part of medicine and we need to learn about it for the safety of our patients.  As a side note, if you are uncomfortable prescribing birth control medications and performing abortions, but are interested in OB/GYN then I would recommend working in a Catholic hospital/health system as they follow the Catholic beliefs and cannot prescribe or perform them (unless the mother is in danger).  However, they do speak to their patients about the option of birth control medications (and other practices) as they are health care providers providing patient education, which is an important part of being a health care provider.
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Euthanasia - it would make a great persuasive essay.
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Euthanasia should be legalized but very carefully. Sometimes it is better to die than live with a painful, vegetative disease. However the laws will have to be clear, there are many who might use it for unscrupulous reasons
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There are several organisations involved in checking and treatment of AIDS. Try to get in touch with APAC.
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Call the attorney generals office in your state and ask what is required, such as space professional medical employees, beds equipment etc.  Hospice is a sad business, it is wonderful for the dying people but you know when you are getting a new patient that they will soon die.
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http://catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0052.html
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- Stem Cell Research\n- Abortion Rights\n- Capital Punishment
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Euthanasia is the overall term used to describe a medical process whereby a sickly patient ends his/her life rather than continue suffering until an inevitable death.  Physician assisted suicide is just one type of euthanasia.\n\n"Voluntary active euthanasia is the intentionally administering medication or other interventions to cause the patient's death at the patient's explicit request and with fully informed consent. Involuntary active euthanasia is the intentionally administering medications or other interventions to cause patient's death when patient was competent but without the patient's explicit request and/or fully informed consent. Nonvoluntary active euthanasia is the intentionally administering medication or other interventions to cause patient's death when patient was incompetent or not able to explicitly requesting it. Terminating life-sustaining treatments is withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatments from the patient to let him or her die. Palliative care or indirect euthanasia is administering narcotics or other medications to relieve pain with incidental consequence of causing sufficient respiratory depression to result in the patient's death. Physician-assisted suicide is a physician providing medication or other interventions to a patient with the understanding that the patient intends to use them to commit suicide."
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Okay, I'm tempted to offer to put you out of your misery.\n\nThis is a big topic and you have to find a meaningful focus. Do you want to talk about the ethical debate? Do you want to discuss the legal issues? \n\nHere's one idea, since it's civics: Look at the one country where euthanasia is legal, Holland, and talk about whether the law there would be a good or bad model for the United States to follow. Is the enactment of such a law desirable? Would it be workable in the climate of the US given the polarization over the abortion issue? Is this something that could be enacted nationally or only statewide, as the mercy-killing law in Oregon. \n\nI've cited a few websites below that could be useful starting points, but you problem need to delve into hard-copy stuff, journals and books.\n\nHope this idea is helpful. Better get going.
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Yes, there is the HSUS or Humane Society of the United States. There is also Petfinders. There is also an organization called A.R.K. and another called H.A.R.P.S.
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Human Rights Watch is one organization that focuses on those issues worldwide.  So does Amnesty International.  \n\nMy favorite, though, is Freedom House, which reports on issues everywhere, rates freedom levels in each country, and updates frequently.
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Check the ACLU's website.
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Death penalty laws are social engineering. I cannot subscribe to the ethics of social engineering. As a nurse who has worked in the system with pedophiles, I know also that episodic imprisonment is ineffective. They are relentless. I support the only known ethical solution which is chemical castration.  But, then again, I believe in that for Conservatives, too.
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American Heart Association\n\nhttp://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3031539
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Ditto... there is and has been one in place for a while. Of course there should be one. If it were you standing there looking through the glass at the morgue at someone you loved wouldn't you want answers? Wouldn't you want them to do all that they could?
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I don't know what organization you are looking for specifically but this link will take you to the 2004 annual report for Amnesty International which should give you the information you are looking for.  If not there are other resources you can use on this page.\n\nhttp://web.amnesty.org/report2004/index-eng