At the end of life : true stories about how we die
Summary
A collection of twenty-two personal narratives explores what should be done in the health care system with regards to death, dying, and palliative care. Full description
- Editor's Note: Frank at the piano
- Foreword: New approaches to end-of-life care /
- Karen Wolk Feinstein
- Introduction: Last days /
- Francine Prose
- To morning /
- Anne Jacobson
- On bearing witness /
- Laurie Foos
- Insights in the rearview mirror /
- Phyllis Galley Westover
- The general /
- Larry D. Cripe
- Yellow taxi /
- Eve Joseph
- Wake-up call /
- Catherine A. Musemeche
- Simple gifts /
- Beecher Grogan
- Living and dying well /
- Therese Zink
- A better place /
- Valerie Seiling Jacobs
- Waiting (to go home) /
- Howard Mansfield
- Mr. Stone /
- Diana Flescher
- Rules /
- Maria Meindl
- Life and death and 911 /
- Caroline Burau
- Snowing in Krakow /
- Marcin Chwistek
- Do you remember? /
- Patricia McCarthy
- The business of grief /
- Joe Primo
- This is blood /
- Sandell Morse
- A figurative death /
- Carol Cooley
- The measure of time /
- Amanda J. Redig
- The deep truth /
- Eugenia Smith
- The resurrection of Wonder Woman /
- Eleanor Vincent
- Twelve breaths a minute /
- Gulchin A. Ergun.