Final Acts: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make

by June Bingham, Susan Perlstein, Jean Levitan, et al.

Book Overview

Today most people die gradually, from incremental illnesses, rather than from the heart attacks or fast-moving diseases that killed earlier generations. Given this new reality, the essays in Final Acts explore how we can make informed and caring end-of-life choices for ourselves and for those we love and what can happen without such planning.

Contributors include patients, caretakers, physicians, journalists, lawyers, social workers, educators,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813546281
• ISBN13: 9780813546285
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"