Dignified Ending

Taking Control Over How We Die

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvLewis M. Cohen, MD,MD,Lewis M. Cohen, MD,MD Lewis M. Cohen

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Each year, more than one million people and their loved-ones arrive at a decision to cease attempts at curative medical treatments and shift to hospice care, while one-in-five Americans now live in in geographical regions that have established lawful protocols allowing medical aid in dying—also known as assisted suicide. In this powerful new work, Lew Cohen, a psychiatrist and palliative medicine researcher, reveals a self-determination movement that empowers people to shape the timing and circumstances of their deaths, decriminalizes laws threatening those who help them, and passes assisted dying legislature.He offers a vivid tapestry woven from the candid, inspirational, and graphic stories of individuals who sought to choreograph how they would die. There is nothing simple about these decisions, and A Dignified Ending tackles the intricacies of timing, the presence of dementia and other dire but not terminal conditions, the legal risks, as well as the mixed reactions of the disability community. Cohen illuminates the evolution of right-to-die organizations in the United States, and the impact of activists like Jack Kevorkian, Derek Humphrey, Faye Girsh, Cody Curtis, and Brittany Maynard.The decision to conclude one’s life with a planned death is an emotionally polarizing subject. Nonetheless, the public increasingly wants to control how they die. This requires that people formulate their end-of-life preferences and not wait until the last moment to communicate these with physicians and families. A Dignified Ending conveys truthful and nuanced accounts of men and women who chose to die, and stories of the activists—proponents and opponents— who promote this growing right-to-die movement.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-08-08
Mått141 x 211 x 28 mm
Vikt494 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538185452

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Lew Cohen is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts-Baystate School of Medicine, and an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the Tufts University School of Medicine. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Medicine and Health, two Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency awards, and a Bogliasco Fellowship for the Arts and Humanity, as well as the Eleanor and Thomas Hackett Award from the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. He is author or co-editor of several books, including No Good Deed (HarperCollins).

Part I.ForewordChapter 1. The Admiral and His WifeChapter 2. The Geriatric Romeo and JulietChapter 3. It’s Not Like She’s SufferingChapter 4. Sigmund Freud’s CancerChapter 5.You Don’t Want Custer Chapter 6. How Life Turned OutChapter 7. Putting the ‘Mensch’ in Dementia Chapter 8. You Won’t Let Me Suffer?Chapter 9. My WayChapter 10. Fate Worse Than Death Chapter 11. Nothing But TorturePart IIChapter 12. Goodbye, My LoveChapter 13 .Dr. DeathChapter 14. Hemlock Chapter 15. A Well-Worn SweaterChapter 16. Bring Out Yer DeadChapter 17. The FederationChapter 18. Caring FriendsChapter 19. The Metamorphosis of Caring FriendsChapter 20. The New Dr. Death Chapter 21. The Final Two CasesPart IIIChapter 22. Four Boxes of ChocolateChapter 23. On Her Own TermsChapter 24. Golden SummerChapter 25. Don’t Sugarcoat ItChapter 26. Enough is EnoughChapter 27. What She WantedChapter 28. Cowboys, Mormons, and SundancePart IVChapter 29. We Have ChoicesChapter 30. Last ThoughtsAuthor’s Notes, Acknowledgments

Cohen uses case studies of a number of people, some famous and others less well known, to examine the controversial subject of medically assisted suicide. From profiles of people like Jack Kevorkian, the late doctor who became one of the more noted champions of euthanasia, to other activists and opponents of assisted suicide, Cohen looks at the timing of such decisions, the legal risks and the mixed reaction of the disability community.