To Die Well
Your Right to Comfort, Calm, and Choice in the Last Days of Life
Contributors
By Joseph Glenmullen
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- Feb 26, 2008
- Page Count
- 224 pages
- Publisher
- Balance
- ISBN-13
- 9780738211633
Knowing our rights to refuse treatment, and ways to bring death earlier if pain or distress cannot be alleviated, will spare us the frightening helplessness that can rob our last days of meaning and personal connection. Drs. Wanzer and Glenmullen clarify what patients should insist of their doctors, including the right to enough pain medication even if it shortens life. Everyone needs their wise and comforting advice.
“Superb. . . . In clear, practical terms it explains what you can do to achieve the peaceful death everyone wants but too few people have.” —Marcia Angell, MD, former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine
“Wanzer was one of the first mainstream U.S. physicians to advocate openly both for the improvements in palliative care for all dying patients and for more choice about hastening death if suffering becomes intolerable. Those who want to learn more about all of their potential end-of-life options would do well to read this book.” —Timothy E. Quill, MD, author of Death and Dignity: Making Choices and Taking Charge
“Important for both patients and clinicians.” —David S. Rosenthal, MD, Harvard Medical School, Past President, American Cancer Society
“Anyone planning for end-of-life care will benefit from this book. Pearls of wisdom include discussion of the right to stop unwanted treatment . . . the need for hospice care to be started much earlier . . . and the proper dose of an analgesic being the amount necessary to relieve suffering patients’ pain.” —Choice
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Journal of the American Medical Association
"Brings needed hope and comfort to those who are near death and to those who attend the dying and are responsible for ensuring that a good death is possible. The book will appeal to patients, their families, and their caregivers. A fascinating book, rich with clinical stories. Gently and compassionately written."
Milwaukee Magazine, March 2011 “Wanzer makes a strong case for allowing people greater choices in how they die.”
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