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Judith Ahronheim, MD & Doron Weber

Final Passages:
Positive Choices for the Dying and Their Loved Ones

(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992) 285 pages

A very helpful book for thinking about end-of-life choices,
filled with real-life illustrations of people who prepared well for death
--and others who did not.

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 you want additional help in getting ready for the end,
search the Internet for the following bibliography:
"Best Books on Preparing for Death".

James Leonard Park, existential philosopher.