New York : McGraw-Hill, 2012.
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Part of the series Contemporary learning series
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references.
• UNIT 1. End-of-life decision making — Does depression make end-of-life decisions untrustworthy? — Do advance directives improve care for those unable to make decisions? — UNIT 2. Caregiver end-of-life decision making — Do dying persons without advocates get a difference quality of care? — Compassion fatigue : does burnout occur in all caregivers of dying patients? — UNIT 3. Treatment requests and decisions : pain and futility — Does a dying person with severe pain have a right to effective pain management? — Should pain be alleviated if it hastens death? — Does too much treatment result in an inhumane dying? — Are feeding tubes obligatory? — Does withholding or withdrawing futile treatment kill people? — UNIT 4. Assisted suicide — May a dying person hasten her death? — Can legal suicide really safeguard against abuse? — Is palliative sedation actually euthanasia in disguise? — UNIT 5. Determining definitions of death — Is brain death dead enough? — UNIT 6. Hospice, policy, and costs of dying — Is it better to die in hospice than hospitals? — Should eldercare at the end of life be subsidized? — UNIT 7. Dying and death as cultural performances — Is dying improved by belonging to a religious community rather than simply being a spiritual person? — Is dying made better by culturally competent end-of-life care? — Do funeral rituals help grief?

Subjects:

• Death.
• Terminal care.
• Assisted suicide.
• Euthanasia.
• Hospice care.
• Death in popular culture.
• Brain — Death.
• Older people — Care.
• Pain — Treatment.

Requested by Lowe, M.