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Final Acts Nan Bauer-Maglin

Final Acts By Nan Bauer-Maglin

Final Acts by Nan Bauer-Maglin


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Today most people die gradually, from incremental illnesses, rather than from the heart attacks or fast-moving diseases that killed earlier generations. This title features essays that explore how we can make informed and caring end-of-life choices for ourselves and for those we love - and what can happen without such planning.

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Final Acts: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make by Nan Bauer-Maglin

Today most people die gradually, from incremental illnesses, rather than from the heart attacks or fast-moving diseases that killed earlier generations. Given this new reality, the essays in Final Acts explore how we can make informed and caring end-of-life choices for ourselves and for those we love - and what can happen without such planning. Contributors include patients, caretakers, physicians, journalists, lawyers, social workers, educators, hospital administrators, academics, psychologists, and a poet, and among them are ethicists, religious believers, and non-believers. Some write moving, personal accounts of 'good' or 'bad' deaths; others examine the ethical, social, and political implications of slow dying. Essays consider death from natural causes, suicide, and aid-in-dying (assisted suicide). Writing in a style free of technical jargon, the contributors discuss documents that should be prepared (health proxy, do-not-resuscitate order, living will, power of attorney); decision-making (over medical interventions, life support, hospice and palliative care, aid-in-dying, treatment location, speaking for those who can no longer express their will); and the roles played by religion, custom, family, friends, caretakers, money, the medical establishment, and the government. For those who yearn for some measure of control over death, the essayists in Final Acts, from very different backgrounds and with different personal and professional experiences around death and dying, offer insight and hope.

About Nan Bauer-Maglin

NAN BAUER-MAGLIN was formerly a professor of English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, and academic director of the CUNY Baccalaureate Program. She is the coeditor of Bad Girls/Good Girls: Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties (with Donna Perry), Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide, and Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women on the End of Their (Mostly) Long-Term Relationships (Rutgers University Press). DONNA PERRY, a professor of English, teaches literature, writing, and women's studies courses at William Paterson University. She is the editor of Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out and coeditor (with Nan Bauer-Maglin) of Bad Girls/Good Girls: Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties (Rutgers University Press).

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CIN0813546281VG
9780813546285
0813546281
Final Acts: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make by Nan Bauer-Maglin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Rutgers University Press
20091215
344
N/A
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