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Author
Publisher
New Horizon Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Dealing with a loved one's life-threatening illness brings difficult and daunting tasks for caregivers. Not knowing when and how to say things and what to do is frightening. Caregivers often feel they are "walking on eggshells." This valuable, practical guide offers comfort, support and advice for managing economic, emotional and daily stressors from day one of the diagnosis" -- Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Death is a part of life. We used to understand this, and in the past, loved ones generally died at home with family around them. But in just a few generations, death has become a medical event, and we have lost the ability to make this last part of life more personal and meaningful. Today people want to regain control over health-care decisions for themselves and their loved ones. Talking About Death Wont Kill You is the essential handbook to help...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at all costs. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions tethered to machines and tubes, even though research indicates that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones. The question How do you want to live? must be posed to the seriously ill because they deserve to choose. If doctors explain options--including the choice to forego countless...
24) Let's talk about death (over dinner): an invitation and guide to life's most important conversation
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Life Long
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
For readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed founder of Death over Dinner offers a practical, inspiring guide to life's most difficult yet important conversation. Of the many critical conversations we will all have throughout our lifetime, few are as important as the ones discussing death--and not just the practical considerations, such as DNRs and wills, but what we fear, what we hope, and how we want to be remembered. Yet...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition. When Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives--what she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found herself wrestling with medicine's most profound paradox, that a profession premised on caring for the ill also systematically...
29) Facing death
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love or your own? When the moment comes, and you're confronted with the prospect of 'pulling the plug', do you know how you'll respond? Unfounded rumors of federal 'death panels' grabbed headlines last summer, but the real decisions of how we die, the questions that most of us prefer to put off, are being made quietly behind closed doors, increasingly on the floors of America's intensive care...
32) Advice for future corpses*, *and those who love them: a practical perspective on death and dying
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
We Are All Future Corpses. Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking, yet practical perspective on death and dying in Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them). Informed by her many years working as a nurse, with more than a decade in palliative care, Tisdale provides a frank, direct, and compassionate meditation on the inevitable. From the sublime (the faint sound of Mozart as...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A palliative care physician draws on stories from her own practice to explain how to enable a gentle and peaceful death and how modern medicine, augmented by traditional palliative approaches, can restore dignity, humanity, and meaning to the end of life.
Series
AHRQ publication volume o. 05-E 004-1
Publisher
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"What if we didn't consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embraced hospice care, and prepared for the end of our lives with hope and acceptance? In this compassionate and knowledgeable guide, TikTok star Julie McFadden-known online as "Hospice Nurse Julie"-shares the valuable lessons she's learned in her fifteen years as an RN in the ICU and in hospice"--
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