The Good Death
Subtitle: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life
Edition: Bantam Trade Ed edition
Publisher: Bantam
Published: February 2, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780553379877
Subjects: Coping with death & bereavement; Social aspects; Moral and ethical aspects; Sociology; Self-Help; Death & Dying; Death, Grief, Bereavement; Family & Relationships / Death, Grief, Bereavement; Death; Psychological aspects; United States
First sentence: Except for the fact that his mother died, the summer he was ten was the best summer of Justin Hardin's life.
Description: The Good Death is the first full-scale examination of one of today's most complex issues: the profound change in the way Americans think about and confront death. Drawing on more than six years of firsthand research and reporting, noted journalist Marilyn Webb builds her account around intimate portraits of the dying themselves. She explains why some deaths become shockingly difficult--and needlessly painful--and how the struggles over end-of-life decisions can pit patient and family against hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, religious groups, and the law.