Good Deaths and Bad Deaths: A Guide to a Graceful Ending

This is not the first book about the struggle to die. But it is the first book about the whole journey, from start to finish. This is a guide to help families plan a graceful death. And make no mistake, it takes planning to avoid last days full of paperwork and machinery. There are books about grieving, books about caretaking, books about hospice, and books about coping with conditions that have no cure. These books often start too late to provide true comfort. Demographer Susan Watkins wan...