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A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Jeanne Fitzpatrick; Eileen M. Fitzpatrick; Foreword by William Colby

Designed by two sisters--one a doctor, one a lawyer--the five-step Compassion Protocol outlined in this work offers a simple and effective framework for leaving caretakers unambiguous and legally binding instructions about one's wishes for his or her last days.


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The fail-safe plan for ensuring one's final wishes are respected

Advanced directives and living wills have improved our ability to dictate end-of-life care, but even these cannot guaran­tee that we will be allowed the dignity of a natural death. Designed by two sisters-one a doctor, one a lawyer-and drawing on their decades of experience, the five-step Compassion Protocol outlined in A Better Way of Dying offers a simple and effective framework for leaving caretakers concrete, unambiguous, and legally binding instructions about your wishes for your last days. Meant for people in every walk of life-from the elderly, to those in the early stages of mentally degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, to healthy young people planning for an unpredictable future-this book creates space for a discussion we all must have if we wish to ensure comfort and control at the end of our lives..



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  • Title A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life
  • Author Jeanne Fitzpatrick; Eileen M. Fitzpatrick; Foreword by William Colby
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2010-01-26
  • Features Glossary, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780143116752 / 0143116754
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.06 x 0.6 in (19.81 x 12.85 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Library of Congress subjects Terminal care, Advance Care Planning
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009038937
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.029

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 01/15/2010, Page 129
  • Publisher's Weekly Annex, 02/08/2010, Page 0

About the author

Jeanne Fitzpatrick, MD, is the coauthor of A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life. For more than 25 years, Dr. Fitzpatrick has practiced emergency medicine in small cities and rural areas around the United States. She works in the emergency department at Santiam Memorial Hospital in Stayton, Oregon.

Eileen M. Fitzpatrick is the coauthor of A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life. Fitzpatrick has been a licensed lawyer for more than 30 years. She received her BA in 1983 from State University of New York at Binghamton and her JD from Harvard University in 1986. She lives in New Hampshire.

William Colby is the author of Unplugged: Reclaiming our Right to Die in America. Colby also wrote the foreword to A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life. He is a lawyer who in 1989 represented a family in the first right-to-die case heard by the US Supreme Court.

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