Death Without Dignity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death Without Dignity write by Steven Long. This book was released on 1987. Death Without Dignity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The story of the first nursing home corporation indicted for murder"--Jacket subtitle.
Death with Dignity
Death with Dignity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death with Dignity write by Robert Orfali. This book was released on 2011. Death with Dignity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book the author makes a case for legalized physician-assisted dying. Using the latest data from Oregon and the Netherlands, he puts a new slant on perennial debate topics such as "slippery slopes," "the integrity of medicine," and "sanctity of life." This book provides an in-depth look at how we die in America today. It examines the shortcomings of our end-of-life system. You will learn about terminal torture in hospital ICUs and about the alternatives: hospice and palliative care. The author scrutinizes the good, the bad, and the ugly. He provides a critique of the practice of palliative sedation. The book makes a strong case that assisted dying complements hospice. By providing both, Oregon now has the best palliative-care system in America. This book, above all, may help you or someone you care about navigate this strange landscape we call "end of life." It can be an informed guide to "a good death" in the age of hospice and high-tech medical intervention.
On Death without Dignity
On Death without Dignity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Death without Dignity write by David Moller. This book was released on 2018-10-26. On Death without Dignity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Candidly written, ""On Death Without Dignity: The Human Impact of Technological Dying"", attempts to re-humanize the inevitable biological occurrence called dying. It is Moller's view that through the advancement of medicalized technology, has come the demise of the contemporary dying process. The oncological death is reflected as failure in the part of modern medicine, the physician, and the hospital; yet the patient experiences alienation, stigma, helplessness, and normlessness. Yet as a culture the current societal approach to the dying-silent avoidance-only adds to this alienation. Society has failed to provide the necessary rules for this universal, social, and biological event.
In Search of Gentle Death
In Search of Gentle Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of Gentle Death write by Richard N. Côté. This book was released on 2012. In Search of Gentle Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Death is inevitable. But bad deaths-- accompanied by unnecessarily prolonged pain and suffering, often aggravated by immensely costly and frequently futile medical treatments-- can be avoided. This book offers clear and valuable examples of how, through frank communication with caregivers and loved ones and the use of Advance Medical Directives such as living wills, those who are facing the possibility of death in the foreseeable future, and those who help them cope, can greatly minimize or eliminate end-of-life turmoil, family dissension, and pain.
Physician-Assisted Death
Physician-Assisted Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Physician-Assisted Death write by James M. Humber. This book was released on 1994-02-04. Physician-Assisted Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Physician-Assisted Death is the eleventh volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews. We, the editors, are pleased with the response to the series over the years and, as a result, are happy to continue into a second decade with the same general purpose and zeal. As in the past, contributors to projected volumes have been asked to summarize the nature of the literature, the prevailing attitudes and arguments, and then to advance the discussion in some way by staking out and arguing forcefully for some basic position on the topic targeted for discussion. For the present volume on Physician-Assisted Death, we felt it wise to enlist the services of a guest editor, Dr. Gregg A. Kasting, a practicing physician with extensive clinical knowledge of the various problems and issues encountered in discussing physician assisted death. Dr. Kasting is also our student and just completing a graduate degree in philosophy with a specialty in biomedical ethics here at Georgia State University. Apart from a keen interest in the topic, Dr. Kasting has published good work in the area and has, in our opinion, done an excellent job in taking on the lion's share of editing this well-balanced and probing set of essays. We hope you will agree that this volume significantly advances the level of discussion on physician-assisted euthanasia. Incidentally, we wish to note that the essays in this volume were all finished and committed to press by January 1993.
