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Preparing for a Better End : Expert Lessons on Death and Dying for You and Your Loved Ones /
A vital roadmap to planning your own end-of-life care. While modern Americans strive to control nearly every aspect of their lives, many of us abandon control of life's final passage. But the realities of twenty-first-century medicine will allow most of us to have a say in how, when, and where...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2020.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction: why not the best of both worlds?
- My dog got better care than my mother
- Taking charge: advance directives and choosing the care you want
- A different choice: do everything
- Cure vs. healing: palliative care and hospice
- Whom do you trust? Choosing your health care agent
- It's not just about old people: when tragedy strikes the young
- No easy answers: dementia, the system, and getting it right
- Assisted suicide, assisted dying, and VSED
- Pain, anxiety, and drugs, drugs, drugs
- What's stopping us
- Gifts of life: organ donation, funerals, and cemeteries
- No job is complete until the paperwork is done: making it legal
- Help, we need somebody: providing support
- The better end: surviving (and dying) on your own terms in today's modern medical world
- Speaking personally.