TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buckley,William J.
AU  - Feldt,Karen S.
TI  - Taking sides: Clashing views in death and dying 
T2  - Taking sides series
SN  - 9780078050398 (pbk.) :
AV  - R726.8 .T35 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Death
KW  - Terminal care
KW  - Assisted suicide
KW  - Euthanasia
KW  - Hospice care
KW  - Death in popular culture
KW  - Brain death
KW  - Older people
KW  - Care
KW  - Pain
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Advance Directives
KW  - Attitude to Death
KW  - Palliative Care
KW  - Terminal Care
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; UNIT 1. End-of-life decision making -- Does depression make end-of-life decisions untrustworthy? -- Do advance directives improve care for those unable to make decisions? -- UNIT 2. Caregiver end-of-life decision making -- Do dying persons without advocates get a difference quality of care? -- Compassion fatigue : does burnout occur in all caregivers of dying patients? -- UNIT 3. Treatment requests and decisions : pain and futility -- Does a dying person with severe pain have a right to effective pain management? -- Should pain be alleviated if it hastens death? -- Does too much treatment result in an inhumane dying? -- Are feeding tubes obligatory? -- Does withholding or withdrawing futile treatment kill people? -- UNIT 4. Assisted suicide -- May a dying person hasten her death? -- Can legal suicide really safeguard against abuse? -- Is palliative sedation actually euthanasia in disguise? -- UNIT 5. Determining definitions of death -- Is brain death dead enough? -- UNIT 6. Hospice, policy, and costs of dying -- Is it better to die in hospice than hospitals? -- Should eldercare at the end of life be subsidized? -- UNIT 7. Dying and death as cultural performances -- Is dying improved by belonging to a religious community rather than simply being a spiritual person? -- Is dying made better by culturally competent end-of-life care? -- Do funeral rituals help grief?
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