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

Edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Donna Perry

ISBN 10: 0813546281 / ISBN 13: 9780813546285

Edité par Rutgers University Press, 2009

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Very good condition. Some minor edgewear, a little heavier on lower corner. All intact. No writing or marking. Not Ex-Library.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Final Acts: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make
• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0813546281
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780813546285
• Reliure: Soft cover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Psychology
  • Death and Dying

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Synopsis

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 loveùand what can happen without such planning.

Contributors include patients, caretakers, physicians, journalists, lawyers, social workers, educators, hospital administrators, academics, psychologists, and a poet, and among them are ethicists, religious believers, and nonbelievers. Some write moving, personal accounts of "good" or 'bad" deaths; others examine the ethical, social, and political implications of slow dying. Essays consider death from natural causes, suicide, and aid-in-dying (assisted suicide).

Writing in a style free of technical jargon, the contributors discuss documents that should be prepared (health proxy, do-not-resuscitate order, living will, power of attorney); decision-making (over medical interventions, life support, hospice and palliative care, aid-in-dying, treatment location, speaking for those who can no longer express their will); and the roles played by religion, custom, family, friends, caretakers, money, the medical establishment, and the government.

For those who yearn for some measure of control over death, the essayists in Final Acts, from very different backgrounds and with different personal and professional experiences around death and dying, offer insight and hope.

À propos de l'auteur

Nan Bauer-Maglin was formerly a professor of English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, and academic director of the CUNY Baccalaureate Program. She is the coeditor of "Bad Girls/Good Girls" Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties (with Donna Perry), Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide, and Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women on the End of Their (Mostly) Long-Term Relationships (Rutgers University Press).

Donna Perry, a professor of English, teaches literature, writing, and women's studies courses at William Paterson University. She is the editor of Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out and coeditor (with Nan Bauer-Maglin) of "Bad Girls/Good Girls" Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties (Rutgers University Press).