How to Get the Death You Want: A Practical and Moral Guide
Description
A comprehensive manual for those reaching the end of life, and for their friends, relatives, advocates, and caretakers. Abraham describes in detail the challenges faced by those who wish to avoid months or years of painful treatment after losing hope of ever recovering any reasonable quality of life.
Subjects include:
♦ the nature of physical death;
♦ legal documents to clarify one's wishes;
♦ the need for a strong advocate to have the patient's wishes honored;
♦ moral issues that must be considered;
♦ means of dying painlessly once the decision is made;
♦ and much more, including how to respond to reluctant doctors, and the value of humor in communicating with a dying patient.
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About the Author
An Episcopal priest and thanatologist, John Abraham has spent most of his adult life as a pioneer in the fields of grief therapy, hospice, death education, and, more controversially, the right-to-die movement.
This book is a product of those years of experience. Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, perhaps America's best-known authority of death education and grief therapy, comments that "Whatever your opinions on the right-to-die movement, this is a book you must have in your library."
Abraham is also well-known for his sometimes unconventional sense of humor; perhaps personified by the his cover photo, standing next to his coffin, which serves as a bookcase pending its future use. His wit makes it easier for people to become educated on a serious subject, to be better prepared for their own eventual deaths and to advocate for their loved ones at the end of life.
