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 guaran-tee 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..

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 01/26/2010
ISBN: 9780143116752
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.06w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Library Journal 01/15/2010 pg. 129
Publisher's Weekly Annex 02/08/2010