Table of Contents from To Die Well

Preface

Dedication

1. Turning Points at Life's End

2. Rights of the Dying Patient

3. The First Turning Point: From Active Treatment to Comfort Care

4. Pain Control

5. What You Should Expect from Your Doctors and Nurses

6. Family and Friends

7. The Second Turning Point: Making the Decision to Hasten Death

8. What Options Have Been Used in the Past to Hasten Death?

9. Helium: A Newly Used Method to End Suffering

10. Differentiating Sadness at End of Life from Clinical Depression

11. The Special Case of Irreversible Dementia and End-of-Life Management

12. Planning Ahead with Advance Directives: Staying in Control

13. Allowing a Merciful Death

Acknowledgments

Appendices

A. Historical background of end-of-life movement and current national organizations

B. Oregon and physician-assisted dying

C. International end-of-life organizations and efforts

D. Contact information for end-of-life organizations

E. Sample living will

F. Health Care Proxy form with optional attachment

G. Proposed living will for Alzheimer's disease and other irreversible cognitive decline

Notes

Index