YOUR LAST YEAR

Creating Your Own
Advance Directive
for Medical Care

by James Park


(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 2006—First edition)       248 pages
(ISBN: 978-0-89231-800-1; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: KF3827.E87.P37 2006)

    Your Last Year asks 24 basic, open-ended Questions
that should be answered by each person
to create a comprehensive Advance Directive for Medical Care.
Your written Answers to these Questions
will become the basic content of your Advance Directive.
And when you fulfill the specific requirements of your state or country,
your Advance Directive will become your legal instructions for medical care.
You will decide your medical ethics, including such matters as:
appointing proxies to make your medical decisions;
what quality of life or level of personhood you would find acceptable;
pain control; nursing home; financial limits; medical information;
life-ending decisions; disposition of your remains;
philosophical-religious beliefs; & readiness for death.


INTERNET LINKS TO FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR LAST YEAR

Table of Contents for Your Last Year
These four pages gives a complete picture of what Your Last Year contains.
Several selections from the book are linked from this Table of Contents.
These pages shared on the Internet amount to about 45 pages total,
or about 25% of the book.
When James Park's Advance Directive (see below) is also included,
about 40% of the book is available on the Internet.

24 Questions for your Advance Directive for Medical Care
These are the basic 24 Questions explored in this book.
Your comprehensive Advance Directive will answer each Question.

Copyright page for Your Last Year
This pages provides all of the Library of Congress subject headings
under which this book might be classified.

James Park's Advance Directive for Medical Care
This Internet version (2013) is not exactly the same
as the version printed in Your Last Year.
But it gives all the same basic Answers.
It is about 50 pages long.

Summary of James Park's Advance Directive
This shorter version is just 4 pages long,
containing one paragraph for each of the 24 Questions.
This summary also appears in Your Last Year,
at the beginning of James Park's comprehensive Advance Directive.

Books on Advance Directives for Medical Care
This bibliography reviews about 10 books on Advance Directives.

Internet Portal on Advance Directives for Medical Care
This is a list of links to many resources on the Internet
related to Advance Directives.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS:

AUTHOR: James Leonard Park
TITLE: Your Last Year
SUBTITLE: Creating Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER: KF3827.E87.P37 2006
NUMBER OF PAGES: 248
SIZE: 8-1/2 inches wide  X  11 inches high  X  1/2 inch thick.
PUBLISHER: Existential Books
PUBLICATION DATE:  June, 2006—1st edition
FRONT COVER
BINDING: 5 aluminum screw posts—does not lie flat when open
BINDING: comb—19 plastic rings in a black spine—does lie flat when open
BINDING: loose-leaf notebook—choice of colors—does lie flat when open
ISBN: 978-0-89231-800-1
WEBSITE FOR THIS BOOK: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/YLY.html 
LIST PRICE: $80 US
WHOLESALE PRICE: $35

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