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How to Get the Death You Want, A Practical and Moral Guide

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How to Get the Death You Want

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A Practical and Moral Guide

Disclaimers -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by Douglas C. Smith -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. What Is a Good Death? -- Chapter 2. Saying Goodbye: Communicating at the End of Life 33 -- Chapter 3. Why I - and Some of My Colleagues - Became Involved in Death with Dignity -- Chapter 4. Playing God -- Chapter 5. Tools to Help You Explore Your Attitudes and Experiences -- Chapter 6. The Death Taboo -- Chapter 7. Honoring Death by Recognizing its Benefits -- Chapter 8. Who Owns and Directs our Dying? -- Chapter 9. What You Need to Know about Advance Directives and Advocacy -- Chapter 10. Active Dying -- Chapter 11. Deliberate Life Completion -- Chapter 12. How to Navigate a Medical Environment -- Chapter 13. Practical Steps When Preparing for Death -- Chapter 14. A Few Words on Grief -- Chapter 15. Some Concluding Thoughts -- Epilogue: Death and Humor -- Appendix A. A Day to be Celebrated -- Appendix B. We Used to Die Better -- Appendix C. A Poem about My Cupboard -- Appendix D. A Physician's View of Death with Dignity -- Appendix E. A Unitarian's Essay about Avoidable Distress -- Appendix F. The Dementia Provision -- Appendix G. Physician Aid in Dying Does Not Go Far Enough -- Appendix H. Let Your Wishes be Known to Your Family -- Appendix I. Statement by Desmond Tutu -- Appendix J. Inter/Met Seminary -- Appendix K. Some Research about "Good Death" -- Appendix L. Euphemisms for Death -- About the Author