A graceful exit : life and death on your own terms / Lofty L. Basta with Carole Post.
1996
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Title
A graceful exit : life and death on your own terms / Lofty L. Basta with Carole Post.
Published
New York : Insight Books, [1996]
Copyright
©1996
Call Number
RA418 .B372 1996
ISBN
0306452707
Description
xviii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)34151319
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-333) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1
1
Quality of Death: An Ancient Perspective on a Contemporary Issue
7
2
A Whirlwind History of Technology's Impact on Life and Death
21
3
Moral Mortality: The Ethics of Dying
45
4
Treatment or Torture? Medical Intervention at the End of Life
59
5
Do Not Resuscitate
77
6
Active Euthanasia: Is There a Sour Note in the "Sweet Death"?
89
7
The High Price of Dying
117
8
Is Medical Intervention Wasted on the Old?
143
9
How Our Dying Can Help the Living
155
10
The Birth of the Living Will: An Attempt to Direct Our Mortal Destiny
179
11
Does the "Living Will" Deserve to Live?
197
12
May the Doctor-Patient Relationship Heal Itself
223
13
A Practical Living Will: Lessons from Denmark
239
14
The Universal Living Will: An American Solution
249
15
Essays by Physicians on Living and Dying
255
App. A. Hospital Policies Regarding Futile Care
261
App. B. Danish Medical Brochure
267
App. C. Universal Living Will
277
Bibliography
287
Glossary
335
Index
339