SAFEGUARDS
FOR LIFE-ENDING DECISIONS
Facebook
Seminar
How much thought have you given
to guidelines or procedures for making life-ending decisions?
This electronic seminar gathers readers from all over the world
to review and help revise a book named:
How
to Die:
Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions.
If we succeed, How to Die will become
the definitive book on procedures
for making careful
end-of-life medical decisions
that result in a wisely
planned and managed death for the patient.
If we fail, this discussion will nevertheless
have been a stimulating exercise
in thinking about end-of-life medical decisions,
both for ourselves and for the people we love.
What procedures are we already planning to use
to prepare for our own deaths
and the deaths of the people who are closest to us?
This electronic seminar takes place by means of
a
Facebook Group
with the same name: SAFEGUARDS FOR LIFE-ENDING DECISIONS.
Once you are 'on Facebook', search for this Group and request to join.
If you are already registered with Facebook,
here is the direct link:
Safeguards
for Life-Ending Decisions:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/107513822718270/
Once
you join our Facebook Group,
you will be able to see the faces of the other members,
at least those who use their real faces on Facebook.
Each week we will read a short part of the book.
How to Die has
60 chapters, plus 33 safeguards.
We are proceeding thru the book in the order
presented.
However, anyone who cares about any specific issue
related to making life-ending decisions
can always go immediately to the most relevant chapters:
Here is the table of contents:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/HTD.html
We began our first discussion in October 2014,
when our Facebook Group had about 150 members.
As of May 2015, there were 460 members.
In November 2015, we surpassed 600 members.
In November 2016, we had 674 members.
In 2018, we surpassed 700 members.
The second discussion began in January 2019.
This time, instead of presenting each (revised) chapter
in the Files section of our Facebook Group,
each reader is invited to read that chapter on the Internet.
Reading directly from the Internet version
has the following advantages:
There is never any advertising to distract the reader.
The typeface is better and bolder than what Facebook provides.
Section titles are in color in the Internet presentation of the book.
Newcomers are welcome to join at any time.
They can catch up with the discussion
by reading the parts of the book already discussed
and the comments from other readers
in the "Files" section of our Facebook Group.
Comments in the Files section should be carefully
placed
under the chapter or safeguard being
discussed.
And commenters are also invited to respond to other readers' comments
on that same chapter or safeguard.
All such discussions will be helpful for revising
the book.
Even places where the reader's mind goes to other themes
or misunderstands the point being made
can improve the writing so that other readers
will not be similarly distracted or misled.
The original purpose of this Facebook Group
has now been expanded to include the discussion of safeguards
as found in various right-to-die laws
and in other proposals for end-of-life laws.
Related issues in the news appear from time to time.
The following table of contents will be kept
up-to-date
with changes in chapter titles, names of safeguards,
or when new items are added to the book:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/HTD.html
Created
January 26, 2013; Revised 6-14-2013; 6-24-2013;
7-24-2013; 9-11-2013;
10-31-2013;11-19-2013;
4-22-2014; 5-19-2014; 9-29-2014; 10-23-2014;
3-12-2015; 5-1-2015;
11-5-2015;
3-19-2016; 9-13-2016; 11-29-2016; 8-29-2018; 9-5-2018; 11-27-2018;
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