Peaceful Transitions: An Ironclad Strategy to Die When and How YOU Want [Paperback]

Stanley A. Terman PhD MD (Author), Michael S. Evans MSW JD (Editor), Guy Micco MD (Editor), Ronald B. Miller MD (Editor), Thaddeus M. Pope PhD JD (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

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Dr. Terman has had the courage to formalize a protocol for patients with Advanced Dementia whose quality of life is extremely low. [His form] explicitly lists Palliative Sedation as a method of Comfort Care for informed consent... [that can be used] if all other modalities of treatment have not been successful to reduce pain and suffering.

William Fowkes, MD, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Terman s book is full of illustrative and very moving vignettes, wisdom, compassion, and a whole lot of nuts-and-bolts recommendations that will seem controversial to some, but compelling to others... He offers a comprehensive series of sequential, complementary actions (forms, medallions, cards, suggestions for recording interviews, etc.), which combine to provide a guarantee that is closer to 100% than any other.

Karl Steinberg, MD, President, California Association of Long Term Care Medicine

Sorting My Way Cards is an interactive exercise that could be very valuable in helping people consider what is important to them... I encourage you to read, consider, and discuss this most thorough, most-important, and perhaps life-altering book... Kudos to Dr. Terman for his monumental efforts in bringing us this work.

Guy Micco, MD, UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program

To ensure that patient preferences are honored and that physician orders are durable, Dr. Terman has thought of innumerable potential barriers for which he has devised strategic solutions... Ingeniously, Dr. Terman couples a specially designed Advance Directive with a set of Physician’s Orders to Permit Natural Dying... Some advantages of his form include a recommendation for the implementing physician to consider important safeguards [since] Dr. Terman advocates strongly against ending life prematurely... Dr. Terman writes with compassion, passion, clarity, and expertise. His patient stories are compelling and illustrative... Ironically, a book about how to end life is really one that empowers readers to prolong meaningful and enjoyable life.

Ronald B. Miller, MD, Founding Director of the Program in Medical Ethics, U C Irvine --Excerpts from the Forewords

Millions who will be suffering from Alzheimer’s disease may receive treatment inconsistent with their preferences and values, treatment that may inflict longer and greater suffering. If you do not want this to happen to you, read this book! It offers a unique Advance Care Planning tool that has substantial advantages over all alternatives. Dr. Terman's unique Advance Care Planning tool offers substantial advantages over all alternatives. With a deep appreciation of the plight of the cognitively impaired, Dr. Terman has extracted and combined the best elements of current Advance Care Planning documents to create a new ironclad strategy to fulfill our end-of-life wishes. For most of us, the Advance Directive to Permit Natural Dying/Physician’s Orders to Permit Natural Dying is the most authoritative and durable instrument by which we can avoid unwanted burdensome treatment and avoid lingering with advanced dementia where we would merely exist in a state of total dependency and indignity. --Professor Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, Widener University School of Law

Product Description

Designed for 14 million US baby boomers who will be challenged by Alzheimer’s and other dementias and for all who want to avoid prolonged pain and suffering or total dependence and indignity, at the end of their lives.

Instructions in this book make legalizing Physician- Assisted Suicide unnecessary. Oregon s Death with Dignity Act helps three dozen people a year. This book will help millions: all who are destined to die of chronic diseases, members of their families, and our entire society.

The ironclad strategy gives readers the assurance they need to live as long as possible. The proposed method incorporates robust safeguards and strives for full disclosure to patients and others.

A caring, thoughtful and morally sound book. A responsible approach to the most controversial issue of the Twenty-First Century.

We must consider the solutions offered here before the worst health epidemic the world has ever seen: the predicted increase in Alzheimer’s and other dementias consumes all of our medical, financial and emotional resources.

More than a clear and concise How To guide to follow-up the comprehensive, The BEST WAY to Say Goodbye: A Legal Peaceful Choice at the End of Life, the diligent approach detailed here is both prudent and cautious.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Life Transitions Publications; First edition (June 16, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933418176
• ISBN-13: 978-1933418179
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #222,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)