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ਜਪੁ | Jup
ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 156556" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Assisted Suicide: Expert Panel Urges Legalization Of Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide In Canada</span></strong> </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">First Posted: 11/15/11 09:01 AM ET Updated: 11/15/11 10:08 AM ET </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><img src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/404608/thumbs/s-ASSISTED-SUICIDE-CANADA-KEVORKIAN-EXPERT-PANEL-large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>OTTAWA ( The Canadian Press )</strong> - A long-awaited experts' report on how Canada and Canadian families handle the end of life calls on the federal government to decriminalize euthanasia and assisted suicide.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">And if Ottawa won't co-operate, the panel says provinces should go it alone, by making clear they won't prosecute health-care professionals involved in assisted dying.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"Assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia should be legally permitted for competent individuals who make a free and informed decision that their life is no longer worth living," says the report by the Royal Society of Canada's expert panel on end-of-life decision-making.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The report was two years in the making. It brought together a panel of experts on medicine, philosophy, ethics and health to look at what is being done in other countries, examine Canadian practices and sentiments, and formulate recommendations.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The panel was meant to be neutral, to inform rational debate and lead to solid policy in an area that is always emotional and controversial.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario dismissed the report before it was even public, saying at least one of the panel members is a noted euthanasia advocate.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"When we further investigated the panel members it was clear that ... this report would be a pro-euthanasia propaganda report," the group said in a news release Monday.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But the panel says that Canadians are overwhelmingly in favour of finding an even-handed way to allow voluntary assisted suicide but would not permit anything involuntary.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"We carefully considered Canadian values, international experience in permissive regimes, and legal and ethical aspects of these practices and came to the unanimous conclusion that Canada should have a permissive yet carefully regulated and monitored system with respect to assisted death," the report says.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In Canada and other countries where euthanasia and assisted suicide are against the law, it happens anyway, said panel member Jocelyn Downie.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">She said that while euthanasia is clearly illegal in Canada, several other laws dealing with what doctors can and cannot do toward the end of a patient's life are unclear.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Indeed, the Supreme Court of British Columbia is holding hearings this week into whether doctors can help terminally ill patients die if the patients insist.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Controversy surrounding euthanasia aside, the main thrust of the Royal Society of Canada report was to stress that Canadian governments, institutions and families alike are doing a rotten job in preparing for death and dying.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"People simply do not talk and do not plan enough for the end of life," said Udo Schuklenk, a Queen's University philosophy professor who chaired the panel.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The panel urged far more attention to palliative care, living wills and public education about how to prepare advance directives for a patient's own health care.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Only a third of Canadians have any kind of advance directive, while fewer than half have designated someone who could act on their behalf, the report said. And just one in 10 has discussed the dying process with a doctor.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Palliative-care professionals are too focused on cancer patients and need to expand their expertise, the report urged.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The panel also dismissed the use of the word 'dignity' in discussions about the end of life. The word is abused by both sides of the euthanasia debate, and is too vague to do anyone any good, the report says.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Rather, in a desperate search to find some kind of common ground that would allow for a calm and respectful discussion on the end of life, the panel focused on 'autonomy' instead, said ethicist Daniel Weinstock from the University of Montreal.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The bottom line, he said, is that people want to be able to decide for themselves what will be done to them in their final days.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>By Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/11/15/assisted-suicide-expert-panel-canada-euthanasia_n_1094619.html?ref=canada" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/11/15/assisted-suicide-expert-panel-canada-euthanasia_n_1094619.html?ref=canada</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 156556, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"] [B][SIZE="5"]Assisted Suicide: Expert Panel Urges Legalization Of Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide In Canada[/SIZE][/B] First Posted: 11/15/11 09:01 AM ET Updated: 11/15/11 10:08 AM ET [IMG]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/404608/thumbs/s-ASSISTED-SUICIDE-CANADA-KEVORKIAN-EXPERT-PANEL-large.jpg[/IMG] [B]OTTAWA ( The Canadian Press )[/B] - A long-awaited experts' report on how Canada and Canadian families handle the end of life calls on the federal government to decriminalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. And if Ottawa won't co-operate, the panel says provinces should go it alone, by making clear they won't prosecute health-care professionals involved in assisted dying. "Assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia should be legally permitted for competent individuals who make a free and informed decision that their life is no longer worth living," says the report by the Royal Society of Canada's expert panel on end-of-life decision-making. The report was two years in the making. It brought together a panel of experts on medicine, philosophy, ethics and health to look at what is being done in other countries, examine Canadian practices and sentiments, and formulate recommendations. The panel was meant to be neutral, to inform rational debate and lead to solid policy in an area that is always emotional and controversial. But the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario dismissed the report before it was even public, saying at least one of the panel members is a noted euthanasia advocate. "When we further investigated the panel members it was clear that ... this report would be a pro-euthanasia propaganda report," the group said in a news release Monday. But the panel says that Canadians are overwhelmingly in favour of finding an even-handed way to allow voluntary assisted suicide but would not permit anything involuntary. "We carefully considered Canadian values, international experience in permissive regimes, and legal and ethical aspects of these practices and came to the unanimous conclusion that Canada should have a permissive yet carefully regulated and monitored system with respect to assisted death," the report says. In Canada and other countries where euthanasia and assisted suicide are against the law, it happens anyway, said panel member Jocelyn Downie. She said that while euthanasia is clearly illegal in Canada, several other laws dealing with what doctors can and cannot do toward the end of a patient's life are unclear. Indeed, the Supreme Court of British Columbia is holding hearings this week into whether doctors can help terminally ill patients die if the patients insist. Controversy surrounding euthanasia aside, the main thrust of the Royal Society of Canada report was to stress that Canadian governments, institutions and families alike are doing a rotten job in preparing for death and dying. "People simply do not talk and do not plan enough for the end of life," said Udo Schuklenk, a Queen's University philosophy professor who chaired the panel. The panel urged far more attention to palliative care, living wills and public education about how to prepare advance directives for a patient's own health care. Only a third of Canadians have any kind of advance directive, while fewer than half have designated someone who could act on their behalf, the report said. And just one in 10 has discussed the dying process with a doctor. Palliative-care professionals are too focused on cancer patients and need to expand their expertise, the report urged. The panel also dismissed the use of the word 'dignity' in discussions about the end of life. The word is abused by both sides of the euthanasia debate, and is too vague to do anyone any good, the report says. Rather, in a desperate search to find some kind of common ground that would allow for a calm and respectful discussion on the end of life, the panel focused on 'autonomy' instead, said ethicist Daniel Weinstock from the University of Montreal. The bottom line, he said, is that people want to be able to decide for themselves what will be done to them in their final days. [B]By Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press[/B] [B]source:[/B] [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/11/15/assisted-suicide-expert-panel-canada-euthanasia_n_1094619.html?ref=canada[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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