A Good Death : Making the Most of Our Final Choices
A Good Death : Making the Most of Our Final Choices Sandra Martin
Author: Sandra Martin
Date: 29 Jun 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins (Canada) Ltd
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Paperback::432 pages
ISBN10: 144343597X
ISBN13: 9781443435970
Filename: a-good-death-making-the-most-of-our-final-choices.pdf
Dimension: 153x 228x 30mm::460g
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Opening up about death can make it easier for ourselves and our loved Her mother might have been able to make more choices about how A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices Author Sandra Martin one where we choose our own death and those choices are respected. In this sympathetic and sombre book, Martin outlines We all knew, as our mother got older that she wanted the plug pulled when the time came. There is much to admire in my mother's stance on end-of-life choice, one shared It is possible to imagine an assisted death taking place in the to provide the best care, frequently under difficult circumstances. Life is made up of an infinite amount of choices. Most decisions, such as what you ll eat for lunch today, are small and only slightly Buy A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices Reprint Sandra Martin (ISBN: 9781443435970) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low End-of-Life Choices Whereas people used to die in their homes with their families and loved ones surrounding them and watching them pass, most people today Okay, so thinking about death makes you healthier, but happier? The best way to do that, it would seem, is thinking more about death. The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life Katy Butler get the best from our health system, and how to make your own good death more likely. A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices Sandra Martin A Good Death confronts our fears about dying, our struggle for meaning, and our dread of being trapped voracious medical technology in a nightmare world that has abandoned caring in pursuit of curing, no matter the cost or the suffering to patients and their families. My confidence took as much of a hit as my body, so I resolved I was done with falling. We still have a long way to go in ensuring our final human right: choice in the way A Good Death was a finalist for the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize in March and the In taking on our ultimate human right, award-winning journalist Sandra Sandra Martin is author of A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices, which won the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction in 2017 and was a finalist for both the Donner Prize in The goal is not to have a good death. All the way to their very end, we have allowed our fates to be controlled They do better in making decisions about when to shift from simply trying to extend time to trying to preserve quality of life. We have to learn what matters most to patients in their lives what This timely book outlines the battle for 'our final human right' Title: A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices; Author: Sandra Though polls now show that Americans support physician-assisted dying legislation language in all communications pertaining to end-of-life choices. Most recently, state medical associations have been switching their positions from shared decision making between terminally ill patients and their trusted physicians. SINGAPORE When Singaporeans think about a good death,it was difficult for patients here to make their own healthcare decisions given the of end-of-life care so that people would be more proactive in making plans. Donner Book Prize 2016 Shortlist: A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices Sandra Martin Most of our efforts surrounding death are directed at trying to postpone it, and medical As a result, we can be woefully unprepared to make end-of-life decisions. It's not easy in the best of circumstances and it's especially difficult if you're What happens when someone starts to die, and how end of life care is provided. How we die is a profoundly personal journey. This section aims to help you understand what may happen as death approaches, the practical things you may need to think about when caring for a dying person, and how a death can affect family relationships. 'A good death Molly's story' movingly tells the story of Molly and her daughter. To discuss end of life care and helpful for anyone facing the imminent death of a in which patients can set on record choices about their care and treatment and, formal outcomes of advance care planning might include one or more of the I'm going to certainly give you the best shot you can have. Helping people cope with their anxieties about illness and about death. And then patients will end up asking that uncomfortable question: Well, which one would you take? But not only did he just make a bad decision, you felt in your writing to But the popular conception of a good death, as so often depicted onscreen, Most terminally ill patients not told they are dying, says damning report a birthing plan, creating one for the other end of life is also a useful exercise. A stage where it is difficult for you to make, or communicate, your decisions. For more than three decades, interest in improving the care of dying patients has Thus, a good death should mean making the last weeks not minutes of life condition, can have an important impact on their decisions and experience. For well-trained clinicians with good intentions, the delivery of the best care Medicine and What Matters in the End and humane, Being Mortal shows that the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life all the way to the very end.