Final acts : death, dying, and the choices we make / / edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Donna Perry.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:x, 326 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Notes on my dying / Ruthann Robson
  • Live longer or live better? / June Bingham
  • "Life which is ours to know just once" / Nancy Barnes
  • Caregiving Beulah: a relentless challenge / Susan Perlstein
  • E-mails to family and friends: Claude and maxilla-declining gently / Sara M. Evans
  • Whose death is it, anyway? / Carol K. Oyster
  • The family tree / Jean Levitan
  • Elegy for an optimist / Mimi Schwartz
  • Buddhist reflections on life and death: a personal memoir / Alan Pope
  • Death as my colleague / Mary Jumbelic
  • The transformation of death in America / Stephen P. Kiernan
  • Unintended consequences: hospice, hospitals, and the not-so-good death / Kathryn Temple
  • The hospital ethics committee: solving medical dilemmas / Natalie R. Hannon
  • Ethical principles for end-of-life decision making / Candace Cummins Gauthier
  • Life or death: who gets to choose? / Cherylynn MacGregor
  • Empowering patients at the end of life: law, advocacy, policy / Kathryn L. Tucker
  • Dying down under: from law reform to the peaceful pill / Philip Nitschke, Fiona Stewart
  • Ageism and late-life choices / Margaret Cruikshank
  • Physician-assisted suicide: why both sides are wrong / Ira Byock
  • End of days / Marge Piercy.