{"product_id":"preparing-for-a-better-end-9781421439167","title":"Preparing for a Better End","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 we die, so we need to make decisions surrounding death, too. Or those decisions may be made for us. Threading compelling real-life stories and practical guidance throughout, this book helps readers navigate end-of-life care for themselves and their loved ones.   In this practical guidebook, Dr. Dan Morhaim and Shelley Morhaim offer readers hope, empowerment, and inspiration. What we choose for our end-of-life care, they assert, depends on accurate information and on our personal values. We need these not only to understand new medical advances but also to appreciate the wisdom of humanity's past and present. Dan Morhaim, an emergency medicine physician and former Maryland state legislator, guid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Why Not the Best of Both Worlds? \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. My Dog Got Better Care Than My Mother \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eTaking Charge: Advance Directives and Choosing the Care You Want\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eA Different Choice: Do Everything\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Cure vs. Healing: Palliative Care and Hospice\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Whom Do You Trust? Choosing Your Health Care Agent\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. It's Not Just about Old People: When Tragedy Strikes the Young\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. No Easy Answers: Dementia, the System, and Getting It Right\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Assisted Suicide, Assisted Dying, and VSED\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Pain, Anxiety, and Drugs, Drugs, Drugs\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. What's Stopping Us\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Gifts of Life: Organ Donation, Funerals, and Cemeteries\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. No Job Is Complete Until the Paperwork Is Done: Making It Legal\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Help, We Need Somebody: Providing Support\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. The Better End: Surviving (and Dying) on Your Own Terms in Today's Modern Medical World\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Speaking Personally\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eResources\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408139886935,"sku":"9781421439167","price":18.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421439167.jpg?v=1730501731","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/preparing-for-a-better-end-9781421439167","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}