ISBN:
9780813546278
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (339 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Final Acts : Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
Death
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Thanatology
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Thanatology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
For those who yearn for some measure of control over death Final Acts, offers insight and hope. Writing in a style free of technical jargon, the contributors discuss documents that should be prepared (health proxy, do-not-resuscitate order, living will, power of attorney); decision-making (over medical interventions, life support, hospice and palliative care, aid-in-dying, treatment location, speaking for those who can no longer express their will); and the roles played by religion, custom, family, friends, caretakers, money, the medical establishment, and the government
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; PREFACE; E-mails to Family and Friends; Introduction; Notes on My Dying; Live Longer or Live Better?; "Life which is ours to know just once"; Caregiving Beulah; Whose Death Is It, Anyway?; The Family Tree; Elegy for an Optimist; Buddhist Reflections onLife and Death; Death as My Colleague; The Transformation ofDeath in America; Unintended Consequences; The Hospital Ethics Committee; Ethical Principles for End-of-LifeDecision Making; Life or Death; Empowering Patients at theEnd of Life; Dying Down Under; Ageism and Late-Life Choices; Physician-Assisted Suicide; End of days
Description / Table of Contents:
ABOUT THE EDITORS ANDCONTRIBUTORSINDEX;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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