Control Your Critical Health Care DecisionsThe Complete Living Will Kit is an easy-to-use guide to preparing your own living will without the expense of an attorney. A living will, along with a health care power of attorney, provides your family and doctors with instructions for your health care and ensures that your wishes are followed-even if you are unable to speak for yourself. Inside, learn how easy it is to prepare all the documents you may ever need. Simple instructions and samples walk you through filling out your own forms and giving your family the power to carry out your health care wishes.Write the Best Living Will for YouWith step-by-step instructions and sample filled-in forms, you can easily personalize the documents to express exactly what you want to happen if you ever become incapacitated.Ensure Complete CoverageLearn about other valuable health care documents, including health care powers of attorney and do not resuscitate orders, that guide your family and doctors in the case of an emergency.Direct Your DoctorsEnsure that your doctors follow your specific wishes and make the health decisions you want-no matter the situation.Prepare Your Specific NeedsState-by-state listings covering every state’s laws and specifically sanctioned forms make this book your one-stop guide for preparing the precise documentation you need.Share Your DecisionsLearn the importance of notifying your family and friends of your decisions and providing your health care agents with all the necessary information-before it is too late.Modify Forms for Your NeedsFind all the essential forms on the accompanying CD-ROM and modify each form to say exactly what you want.Making your health care wishes known has never been easier.

Assisted suicide remains one of the most emotionally charged and controversial topics—and the issue isn’t going away any time soon. As the baby boomer generation ages, many of us will watch as our parents—and ourselves—grow older, and wonder at the decisions that lie ahead.Understanding Assisted Suicide provides both a fresh take on this important topic and the framework for intelligent participation in the discussion. Uniquely, the author frames the issue using his own experience watching both his parents die, which led him to ask fundamental questions about death, dying, religion, and the role of medicine and technology in alleviating human suffering.In concerns about assisted suicide, each person’s “big picture” has largely been created out of picking and choosing from nine separate snapshot albums.Understanding this offers a perspective for quickly determining the sources of another’s opinion on assisted suicide, as well as the issues they are not considering. Most importantly, Understanding Assisted Suicide offers a clear, easy-to-traverse landscape over which those who are sincerely looking for their own answers can navigate. The “nine-issue structure” allows both careful exploration of separate issues and a view of the full spectrum of ideas involved.

Product Description: Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life and euthanasia? How do journalistic values and media ethics affect the public's perception of euthanasia? What impact would the legalization of euthanasia have on concepts of human rights, human responsibilities, and human ethics? Can we imagine teaching young physicians how to put their patients to death? There are vast ethical, legal, and social differences between natural death and euthanasia...read more