Editor's Note: Frank at the piano -- Foreword: New approaches to end-of-life care / Karen Wolk Feinstein -- Introduction: Last days / Francine Prose -- To morning / Anne Jacobson -- On bearing witness / Laurie Foos -- Insights in the rearview mirror / Phyllis Galley Westover -- The general / Larry D. Cripe -- Yellow taxi / Eve Joseph -- Wake-up call / Catherine A. Musemeche -- Simple gifts / Beecher Grogan -- Living and dying well / Therese Zink -- A better place / Valerie Seiling Jacobs -- Waiting (to go home) / Howard Mansfield -- Mr. Stone / Diana Flescher -- Rules / Maria Meindl -- Life and death and 911 / Caroline Burau -- Snowing in Krakow / Marcin Chwistek -- Do you remember? / Patricia McCarthy -- The business of grief / Joe Primo -- This is blood / Sandell Morse -- A figurative death / Carol Cooley -- The measure of time / Amanda J. Redig -- The deep truth / Eugenia Smith -- The resurrection of Wonder Woman / Eleanor Vincent -- Twelve breaths a minute / Gulchin A. Ergun.
Summary:
A collection of twenty-two personal narratives explores what should be done in the health care system with regards to death, dying, and palliative care.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.