Praise for To Die Well

"Everyone approaching the end of life should read this superb book. In clear, practical terms it explains what you can do to achieve the peaceful death everyone wants but too few people have—particularly those not lucky enough to have a physician like Dr. Wanzer."
— Marcia Angell, M.D.
     Harvard Medical School, former Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine

"Sidney Wanzer was one of the first mainstream U.S. physicians to advocate openly both for improvements in palliative care and for more choice about hastening death if sufferiing becomes intolerable. Those who want to learn about all of their potential end-of-life options would do well to read this book."
— Timothy E. Quill, M.D.
     Author of Death and Dignity: Making Choices and Taking Charge

"To Die Well has been a long personal crusade for Sidney Wanzer in caring for patients and their families and in writing on behalf of their needs as they face the complex issues in the last weeks and days of a terminal illness. His book is important for both patients and clinicians."
— David S. Rosenthal, M.D.
     Past President, American Cancer Society

"In this caring and compassionate book, Dr. Wanzer advises us to work with our doctors to organize into a vigilant team. His wise advice is worth every reader's time."
— Lawrence D. Egbert, M.D.
     Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

"The discussion of the 'turning points' of care is a welcome and needed addition to the current debates. An immense contribution."
— Richard Macdonald, M.D.
     Former President, World Federation of Right-to-Die Societies

"The most comprehensive and understandable view to date of how patients and doctors can successfully confront the imposing challenges of life-threatening and fatal illness."
— Edward Lowenstein, M.D.
     Harvard Medical School, Division of Medical Ethics

"Dr. Wanzer brings to this wonderful, warm, and wise book not only his decades of experience as a practicing family physician, but also his perspective as a leading thinker in the patients' rights movement."
— Professor Charles H. Baron
     Boston College Law School