*Final Passages

Fireside (Sep 01, 1993)

R 726 .A43

288 pages | English

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Sound advice for the medical, legal, and emotional concerns of the terminally ill and their families. In this thoughtful guide, readers discover how to ease life's most difficult passage by overcoming fear and confusion in order to gain control of the dying process.

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Notes

Themes covered:
(1) Becoming serious and verbal about our own deaths;
(2) Improving communications among doctors, patient, & family;(This chapter also includes discussion of the most common causes of death.);
(3) The right-to-die and irrational suicide,
including physician involvement in ending life;
(4) Pain control and comfort care;
(5) Clinical depression upon facing death--and treating it;
(6) Natural shutting down of the body as death approaches;
(7) Hospice;
(8) Living wills;
(9) Financial problems and planning for terminal care,
nursing homes, & death;
(10) Emotional responses to the prospect of dying.

If getting ready for death is high on your list of things to do,
search the Internet for this bibliography:
"Best Books on Preparing for Death

ISBN 0671868926