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• Title:To die well : your right to comfort, calm and choice in the last days of life / Sidney H. Wanzer, Joseph Glenmullen.
  
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• Author/Creator:Wanzer, Sidney H.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Glenmullen, Joseph, 1950-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, MA : Lifelong Books/Da Capo Press, 2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W85.5 .W36 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Right to die.
  
• Medical Subjects: Right to Die
  
• Edition:1st Da Capo Press ed.
  
• Description:xii, 209 pages ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:"A leader in the rigiht-to-die movement, Wanzer advocates measures that allow patients to control decisions about end-of-life treatment and ensure a peaceful death. With the help of Harvard Medical School faculty member Glenmullen (The Antidepressant Solution), Wanzer, himself the former head of Harvard University Law School Health Services, provide clear legal and medical guidelines for the terminally ill and their loved ones who are facing these decisions"--Publishers Weekly.
  
• Notes:"A Merloyd Lawrence book."
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780738210834 (hbk.)
  0738210838 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Turning points at life's end
  Rights of the dying patient
  The first turning point : from active treatment to comfort care
  Pain control
  What you should expect from your doctors and nurses
  Family and friends
  The second turning point : making the decision to hasten death
  What options have been used in the past to hasten death?
  Helium : newly used method to end suffering
  Differentiating sadness at the end of life from clinical depression
  The special case of irreversible dementia and end-of-life management
  Planning ahead with advance directives : staying in control
  Allowing a merciful death.