Joel Zimbelman, a California State University-Chico, religious studies professor, has written on legal decisions and public opinion informing the debate over the removal of life-sustaining treatment, assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Linda Ganzini, professor of psychiatry and medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University, surveyed 2,500 Oregon physicians and 500 hospice workers about patients’ experience of assisted suicide.

Darien Fenn, professor in the psychiatry department at Oregon Health Sciences University, has studied the attitude of Oregon psychologists toward physician-assisted suicide and the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. He can be emailed through a website contact form.

Courtney Campbell, Oregon State University philosophy professor, has focused on the Latter-day Saints and medical ethics, as well as hospice and assisted suicide. He has authored numerous articles on the controversial Oregon Death with Dignity Act and on the Oregon Health Plan.

Gerald McKenny is a professor of Christian ethics and moral theology at the University of Notre Dame. He studies and writes about the ethics of biotechnology and the philosophy of medicine.

Kathryn Rettig is a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota who has looked at marriage issues, child support systems and the values underlying end-of-life decisions.

Read a June 26, 2009, New York Times article on how most Americans who discover a cheating spouse remain married to that person.

Read a Nov. 18, 2010, Pew Research Center article on a survey done with TIME magazine and complemented by an analysis of census data revealing the decline of the iconic American family and the rise of nontraditional families.

Read a Dec. 7, 2010, New York Times blog post on marriage and the culture war.