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 to make their own decisions about when and how to die.
Dr. Preston gives compelling reasons as to why aid-in-dying is
not suicide when used by terminally ill patients, and why
physicians who help them die are not assisting suicide. He shows us
the ethical aspects of aid-in-dying and how they are consistent
with other current and legal medical practices that help patients
end their suffering. He debunks claims that legalized aid-in-dying
would be abused for financial, social, or political reasons. Dr.
Preston also shows how outdated cultural attitudes impede society's
understanding of how we die, why many physicians withdraw from
their dying patients, and how the sanctity-of-life principle has
become distorted to obstruct physician assisted deaths.
"Patient-Directed Dying" is a powerful manifesto calling for
mercy and reason in helping terminally ill patients die a peaceful
death.
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