Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index.
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Why we wrote this book -- Obstacles to good care -- Thinking and talking about mortality -- Palliative care -- The facts about hospice -- The ABCs of advance directives -- Choosing an agent -- Being an agent -- Matters of mind and spirit -- Caregivers -- Children and serious illness -- Nursing home s -- When crises come -- DNRs and assisted dying -- Finances -- Give grief a chance -- Living with dying.