Medical / Terminal Care

Last Acts: Discovering Possibility and Opportunity at the End of Life

by M.D., David J. Casarett

What would you do if you had only a few days to live? Or a few weeks or months? What if a loved one were in this situation -- how could you help that person decide how to spend the time that remained? Perhaps...

Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved: Global Perspectives

by Jonathan Watts & Yoshiharu Tomatsu

Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying. Indeed, the tradition emphasizes turning toward the realities of sickness, old age, and death—and...

Bereavement Care: A New Look at Hospice and Community Based Services

by Jane Marie Kirschling, Marcia E Lattanzi & Stephen Fleming

Here is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at current bereavement care practices and key concerns of care providers. Covering a broad spectrum of topics, interests, and perspectives from divergent disciplines...

Hard Choices for Loving People: Cpr, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Care, and the Patient with a Life-Threatening Illness

by Hank Dunn

"Hard Choices for Loving People" is a guide for helping patients and families with end-of-life decisions like whether or not to use CPR or feeding tubes. After exploring treatment options, the concluding pages...

Aging, Spirituality and Palliative Care

by Rev Elizabeth Mackinley

Gain greater depth of understanding of end-of-life spiritual issues for older adults

The period of time when a person approaches death is always difficult both for the patient and the caregiver. Aging, Spirituality,...

The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life

by MD, Ira Byock

A doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial social issues of our time.

It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Though the vast majority...