Patient-Directed Dying: A Call for Legalized Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill

by Tom Preston and Thomas Preston

Author Tom Preston, MD, and his terminally ill patients and their families often face the controversial predicament of how to die when suffering has been medically extended. Through their conversations, they demonstrate how dying is a process, how physicians alter when and how we die, and why "natural" death is a misnomer after medical interventions prolong the process. Their cases also explain why patients-not physicians or others-should be able...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583484612
• ISBN13: 9781583484616
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.2"