Dignified Ending - Taking Control Over How We Die

A Dignified Ending challenges the idea that prolonging life by every means possible is the only reasonable response to a dire diagnosis or to intractable suffering. It uses true accounts to illustrate how people have choreographed their deaths, and it recommends that death with dignity laws include dementias and other neurodegenerative disorders.

List of contents

Part I.

Foreword

Chapter 1. The Admiral and His Wife

Chapter 2. The Geriatric Romeo and Juliet

Chapter 3. It's Not Like She's Suffering

Chapter 4. Sigmund Freud's Cancer

Chapter 5.You Don't Want Custer

Chapter 6. How Life Turned Out

Chapter 7. Putting the 'Mensch' in Dementia

Chapter 8. You Won't Let Me Suffer?

Chapter 9. My Way

Chapter 10. Fate Worse Than Death

Chapter 11. Nothing But Torture

Part II

Chapter 12. Goodbye, My Love

Chapter 13 .Dr. Death

Chapter 14. Hemlock

Chapter 15. A Well-Worn Sweater

Chapter 16. Bring Out Yer Dead

Chapter 17. The Federation

Chapter 18. Caring Friends

Chapter 19. The Metamorphosis of Caring Friends

Chapter 20. The New Dr. Death

Chapter 21. The Final Two Cases

Part III

Chapter 22. Four Boxes of Chocolate

Chapter 23. On Her Own Terms

Chapter 24. Golden Summer

Chapter 25. Don't Sugarcoat It

Chapter 26. Enough is Enough

Chapter 27. What She Wanted

Chapter 28. Cowboys, Mormons, and Sundance

Part IV

Chapter 29. We Have Choices

Chapter 30. Last Thoughts

Author's Notes, Acknowledgments

About the author

Lewis M. Cohen, MD

Summary

A Dignified Ending challenges the idea that prolonging life by every means possible is the only reasonable response to a dire diagnosis or to intractable suffering. It uses true accounts to illustrate how people have choreographed their deaths, and it recommends that death with dignity laws include dementias and other neurodegenerative disorders.

Product details

• Authors: MD Cohen, MD Lewis M. Cohen, Lewis M. Cohen MD, MD Lewis M. Cohen, Lewis M. Cohen MD
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781538185452
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-8545-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Guides; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, MEDICAL / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, Coping with death & bereavement, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, Medicolegal issues, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement