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The fail-safe plan for ensuring ones final wishes are respected Advanced directives and living wills have improved our ability to dictate end-of-life care, but even these cannot guarantee that we will be allowed the dignity of a natural death. Designed by two sisters-one a doctor, one a lawyer-and drawing on their decades of experience, the five-step Compassion Protocol outlined in A Better Way of Dying offers a simple and effective framework for leaving caretakers concrete, unambiguous, and legally binding instructions about your wishes for your last days. Meant for people in every walk of life-from the elderly, to those in the early stages of mentally degenerative diseases like Alzheimers, to healthy young people planning for an unpredictable future-this book creates space for a discussion we all must have if we wish to ensure comfort and control at the end of our lives.
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As a practical matter, they have each struggled with patients' and clients' shattered expectations as their end-of-life wishes collide with a medical system overwhelmingly geared to sustaining life at any cost. Together the sisters decided to write this book to present new options for choice and control at the end of life.
