Final Acts : : Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make / / ed. by Nan Bauer-Maglin, Donna Perry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Barnes, Nancy,; Bingham, June,; Byock, Ira,; Cruikshank, Margaret,; Evans, Sara M.,; Gauthier Cummins, Candace,; Hannon, Natalie R.,; Jumbelic, Mary,; Kiernan, Stephen P.,; Levitan, Jean,; MacGregor, Cherylynn,; Nitschke, Philip,; Oyster, Carol K.,; Perlstein, Susan,; Piercy, Marge,; Pope, Alan,; Robson, Ruthann,; Schwartz, Mimi,; Stewart, Fiona,; Temple, Kathryn,; Tucker, Kathryn L.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Barnes, Nancy.; Bingham, June.; Byock, Ira.; Cruikshank, Margaret.; Evans, Sara.; Gauthier, Candace.; Hannon, Natalie.; Jumbelic, Mary.; Kiernan, Stephen.; Levitan, Jean.; MacGregor, Cherylynn.; Nitschke, Philip.; Oyster, Carol.; Perlstein, Susan.; Piercy, Marge.; Pope, Alan.; Robson, Ruthan.; Schwartz, Mimi.; Stewart, Fiona.; Temple, Kathryn.; Tucker, Kathryn.
• HerausgeberIn: Bauer-Maglin, Nan,; Perry, Donna,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

Today most people die gradually, from incremental illnesses, rather than from the heart attacks or fast-moving diseases that killed earlier generations. Given this new reality, the essays in Final Acts explore how we can make informed and caring end-of-life choices for ourselves and for those we lov...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part One. Personal Stories
• Notes on My Dying
• Live Longer or Live Better?
• "Life which is ours to know just once"
• Caregiving Beulah: A Relentless Challenge
• E-mails to Family and Friends: Claude and Maxilla-Declining Gently
• Whose Death Is It, Anyway?
• The Family Tree
• Elegy for an Optimist
• Buddhist Reflections on Life and Death: A Personal Memoir
• Death as My Colleague
• Part Two. Perspectives
• The Transformation of Death in America
• Unintended Consequences: Hospice, Hospitals, and the Not-So-Good Death
• The Hospital Ethics Committee: Solving Medical Dilemmas
• Ethical Principles for End-of-Life Decision Making
• Life or Death: Who Gets to Choose?
• Empowering Patients at the End of Life: Law, Advocacy, Policy
• Dying Down Under: From Law Reform to the Peaceful Pill
• Ageism and Late-Life Choices
• Physician-Assisted Suicide: Why Both Sides Are Wrong
• End of days
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Index