Choosing Death Wisely:
Notes
from the Edge of the Right-to-Die
by
James Leonard Park
a
Free Book
on Facebook---FBFB
The text of this book is ever evolving.
Each week there are revisions and additions.
Thus there will never be a definitive publication date,
only a beginning date---which here is 2017.
This is a book of meta-journalism.
It consists entirely of comments on issues found in front-line
journalism.
Working journalists provide all of the background facts.
But comments and analysis relating to right-to-die news
are provided by the present author---James Leonard Park.
This book deals with choosing the best time to die
from the
patient's point-of-view.
These short notes are organized into the basic
chapters of the book.
And because the chapters are always expanding,
they are given LETTERS rather than NUMBERS.
Within each chapter, there are several sections,
each given a number in this table
of contents.
CHAPTER A: The Quest for Quick
Death
When patients hear that they have terminal
diseases,
some of them first look for the closest exit.
CHAPTER B: The Right-to-Die in
Various Jurisdictions
Different countries of the world and states of the
USA
have developed their own approaches to the right-to-die.
CHAPTER C: Medical Methods of
Managing Dying
The advantages and disadvantages of five basic ways
to choose death.
How will we organize our own process of dying?
How should we handle the process of dying
for others who can no longer make their own end-of-life choices?
CHAPTER D: Finding Doctors Who
Will Cooperate
Not every physician endorses every method of dying.
In order to follow our own chosen pathway,
we will seek doctors who will help us realize our best possible death.
CHAPTER E: The Right-to-Die in
Advance Directives
When we make our own end-of-life plans,
we should select the ways of achieving the deaths we
desire.
CHAPTER F: Organized Religion and
the Right-to-Die
Our end-of-life plans might have some religious
dimensions.
CHAPTER G: The Careful Process of
Choosing Death
The mental and emotional processes involved
in making our own end-of-life plans.
CHAPTER H: Working for the
Right-to-Die
The political processes of getting laws changed
to acknowledge the freedom to choose our own pathways towards death.
CHAPTER I: Objections to the
Right-to-Die
Answering and coping with the worries and problems
associated with allowing a new right to end one's life.
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The specific Notes within each chapter appear in the
table of
contents.
Each Note has its own title
---and a link to that comment preserved in a Facebook Group called
"Right-to-Die: Pro & Con".
Thus to read any part of this Free Book on Facebook,
begin with this table
of contents: Choosing
Death Wisely
After each Note,
Facebook provides a space for responses and questions from readers.
Readers might suggest different ways to solve the same problems.
And such dialog might stimulate further changes
in the original comment, analysis, or recommendation
concerning the right-to-die.
Another Free Book on Facebook
deals with the problems of changing national or state laws
to make the right-to-die a daily reality.
This book is called:
Creating
New Right-to-Die Laws.
Here is the direct link to this Free Book on Facebook:
Creating
New Right-to-Die Laws.
Created
February 9, 2018; Revised 3-9-2018;
ALL BOOKS
BY JAMES LEONARD PARK
ABOUT DEATH AND THE RIGHT-TO-DIE
How
to Die:
Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions
Right-to-Die
Hospice
Choosing
Death Wisely:
Notes from the Edge of the Right-to-Die
Your
Last Year:
Creating Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care
Medical
Ethics at the End of Life
Creating
New Right-to-Die Laws
When
Is a Person?
Pre-Persons & Former Persons
Ten
Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions
An
Existential Understanding of Death:
A Phenomenology of Ontological Anxiety