Books About Death and Dying 2020 – May 2022
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The Danger of Pathologizing Normal Emotions
Your emotional reaction to a dread disease diagnosis can have major implications for whether your treatment preferences will be accepted. (Continue reading ...)
Beware Religious Restrictions: Patients and Doctors
Patients may not be aware that their health care system is faith-based, and rarely understand the restrictions that their health systems have implemented -- until they need this care. (Continue reading ...)
Choosing The Clothes To Die For
“I’m more afraid of living than I am of dying.” (Continue reading ...)
Don’t Be Caught Dead Without Us!
Consumers should shop prudently for their funeral – just as they should for a car, a home, an appliance, or any other service. (Continue reading ...)
40 States Do Not Allow Medical Aid in Dying – Mine Is One
A friend’s .357 “solution” reinforced his decision to learn from right-to-die groups. (Continue reading ...)
Organized Medicine Wants to Control Your Death. Acquiesce – or Exercise Your Autonomy.
Managing dying and death is difficult enough. But if you do nothing, you’ll be a pawn in a profit-driven medical system. (Continue reading ...)
Getting Comfortable with the ‘D’ Word
Talking about death doesn’t make it happen sooner. (Continue reading ...)
My Brother’s Keeper – Part Two
Suffering after death — the family’s burden. (Continue reading ...)
My Brother’s Keeper – the Beginning of the End
Do you know what can go wrong without advance directives and an end-of-life plan? You have NO IDEA. (Continue reading ...)