At the end of life true stories about how we die

A collection of twenty-two personal narratives explores what should be done in the health care system with regards to death, dying, and palliative care.

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Other Authors: Gutkind, Lee, Prose, Francine, 1947-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : Creative Nonfiction, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Editor's Note: Frank at the piano
  • Foreword: New approaches to end-of-life care / Karen Wolk Feinstein
  • Introduction: Last days / Francine Prose
  • To morning / Anne Jacobson
  • On bearing witness / Laurie Foos
  • Insights in the rearview mirror / Phyllis Galley Westover
  • The general / Larry D. Cripe
  • Yellow taxi / Eve Joseph
  • Wake-up call / Catherine A. Musemeche
  • Simple gifts / Beecher Grogan
  • Living and dying well / Therese Zink
  • A better place / Valerie Seiling Jacobs
  • Waiting (to go home) / Howard Mansfield
  • Mr. Stone / Diana Flescher
  • Rules / Maria Meindl
  • Life and death and 911 / Caroline Burau
  • Snowing in Krakow / Marcin Chwistek
  • Do you remember? / Patricia McCarthy
  • The business of grief / Joe Primo
  • This is blood / Sandell Morse
  • A figurative death / Carol Cooley
  • The measure of time / Amanda J. Redig
  • The deep truth / Eugenia Smith
  • The resurrection of Wonder Woman / Eleanor Vincent
  • Twelve breaths a minute / Gulchin A. Ergun.