{"product_id":"final-acts-death-dying-and-the-choices-we-make-9780813546285","title":"Final Acts Death Dying and the Choices We Make","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday 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 loveuand what can happen without such planning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An insightful, complex, and pragmatic 'how-to' guide for dying in the Western world. \u003ci\u003eFinal Acts\u003c\/i\u003e a is strong, well-composed, and balanced tool kit to help us all not only change our system to better maintain the integrity of the dying, but to enter into the end of life with confidence and control.\" * Global Action on Aging *\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays in \u003ci\u003eFinal Acts\u003c\/i\u003e offer all manner of paths, exploring a new relationship with death. Wise and gentle guides, Bauer-Maglin and Perry reveal meaning and purpose in the journey.\" -- Barbara Coombs Lee * President, Compassion \u0026amp; Choices *\u003cbr\u003e\"If there's one profound lesson to be learned from \u003ci\u003eFinal Acts\u003c\/i\u003e, it is that most of us are woefully uninformed and unprepared to make wise end-of-life choices. A good place to begin is by reading this book.\" -- Eleanor Foa Dienstag * Transition Network Newsletter *\u003cbr\u003e\"Final Acts provides the reader with persuasive and enlightening views on the controversial complex issues that are illustrated in the personal stories. It is a collection of moving stories and compelling essays.\"\u003cbr\u003e * The Gerontologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"Final Acts provides the reader with persuasive and enlightening views on the controversial complex issues that are illustrated in the personal stories. It is a collection of moving stories and compelling essays.\"\u003cbr\u003e * The Gerontologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"If there's one profound lesson to be learned from \u003ci\u003eFinal Acts\u003c\/i\u003e, it is that most of us are woefully uninformed and unprepared to make wise end-of-life choices. A good place to begin is by reading this book.\" -- Eleanor Foa Dienstag * Transition Network Newsletter *\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays in \u003ci\u003eFinal Acts\u003c\/i\u003e offer all manner of paths, exploring a new relationship with death. Wise and gentle guides, Bauer-Maglin and Perry reveal meaning and purpose in the journey.\" -- Barbara Coombs Lee * President, Compassion \u0026amp; Choices *\u003cbr\u003e\"An insightful, complex, and pragmatic 'how-to' guide for dying in the Western world. \u003ci\u003eFinal Acts\u003c\/i\u003e a is strong, well-composed, and balanced tool kit to help us all not only change our system to better maintain the integrity of the dying, but to enter into the end of life with confidence and control.\" * Global Action on Aging *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Death and the Family\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ruthann Robson, Notes on My Dying\u003cbr\u003e June Bingham, Live Better or Longer?\u003cbr\u003e Nancy Barnes, \"Life which is ours to know just once\"\u003cbr\u003e Susan Perlstein, Caregiving Beulah\u003cbr\u003e Sara M. Evans, E-mails to Family and Friends\u003cbr\u003e Carol K. Oyster, Whose Death Is It, Anyway?\u003cbr\u003e Jean Levitan, The Family Tree\u003cbr\u003e Mimi Schwartz, Elegy for an Optimist\u003cbr\u003e Alan Pope, Buddhist Reflections on Life and Death\u003cbr\u003e Mary Jumbelicm, Death as My Colleague\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Perspectives on Death and Dying\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stephen P. Kiernan, The Transformation of Death in America\u003cbr\u003e Kathryn Temple, Unintended Consequences\u003cbr\u003e Natalie R. Hannon, The Ethics Committee\u003cbr\u003e Candace Cummins Gauthier, Ethical Principles for End-of Life Decision Making\u003cbr\u003e Cherylynn MacGregor, Life or Death\u003cbr\u003e Kathryn L. Tucker, Empowering Patients at the End of Life\u003cbr\u003e Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart, Dying Down Under\u003cbr\u003e Margaret Cruikshank, Ageism As It Affects Late-Life Choices\u003cbr\u003e Ira Byock,Physician-Assisted Suicide\u003cbr\u003e Marge Piercy, End of days","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038418960727,"sku":"9780813546285","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813546285.jpg?v=1750940267","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/final-acts-death-dying-and-the-choices-we-make-9780813546285","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}