Screen LibraryA dignified ending : taking control over how we die /
"Each year, more than one million people and their loved-ones arrive at a decision to cease attempts at curative medical treatments and shift to hospice care, while one-in-five Americans now live in in geographical regions that have established lawful protocols allowing medical aid in dying--al...
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Rowman & Littlefield,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Each year, more than one million people and their loved-ones arrive at a decision to cease attempts at curative medical treatments and shift to hospice care, while one-in-five Americans now live in in geographical regions that have established lawful protocols allowing medical aid in dying--also known as assisted suicide. In this powerful new work, Lew Cohen, a psychiatrist and palliative medicine researcher, reveals a self-determination movement that empowers people to shape the timing and circumstances of their deaths, decriminalizes laws threatening those who help them, and passes assisted dying legislature. He offers a vivid tapestry woven from the candid, inspirational, and graphic stories of individuals who sought to choreograph how they would die. There is nothing simple about these decisions, and A Dignified Ending tackles the intricacies of timing, the presence of dementia and other dire but not terminal conditions, the legal risks, as well as the mixed reactions of the disability community. Cohen illuminates the evolution of right-to-die organizations in the United States, and the impact of activists like Jack Kevorkian, Derek Humphrey, Faye Girsh, Cody Curtis, and Brittany Maynard." -- Publisher's description |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 373 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781538115749 1538115743 |
| Index Number: | R726 |
| CLC: | R-052 |
| Call Number: | R-052/C678-1 |
| Contents: | The Admiral and His Wife -- The Geriatric Romeo and Juliet -- It?s Not Like She?s Suffering -- Sigmund Freud?s Cancer -- You Don?t Want Custer -- How Life Turned Out -- Putting the ?Mensch? in Dementia -- You Won?t Let Me Suffer Unnecessarily -- My Way ? Nothing but Torture -- Fate Worse Than Death? -- Goodbye, My Love -- Dr. Death ? Hemlock -- A Well-Worn Sweater -- Bring Out Yer Dead -- The Federation -- Caring Friends -- The Metamorphosis of Caring Friends -- The New Dr. Death -- The Final Two Cases -- Four Boxes of Chocolate -- On Her Own Terms -- My Golden Summer -- Don?t Sugarcoat It -- Enough is Enough -- What She Wanted -- Cowboys, Mormons, and Sundance -- We Have Choices -- Last Thoughts. |