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• Advanced Care Planning

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• The Art of Dying Well

  a Practical Guide to a Good End of Life

  Butler, Katy, 1949-

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• Being Mortal

  Medicine and What Matters in the End

  Gawande, Atul

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  A look at end-of-life care from the doctors' perspective. Soul-searching about which life extending procedures may have very unpleasant consequences for the patient.

• A Better Way of Dying

  How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life

  Fitzpatrick, Jeanne

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  Introduces the five-step Compassion Protocol that allows patients to make their wishes understood and legally binding.

• The Conversation

  a Revolutionary Plan for End-of-life Care

  Volandes, Angelo, 1971-

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  When death comes from a long illness, whether it happens at home or in the hospital should be the patient's choice. The Conversation is a starting point to making a plan for what will happen in one's last days.

• Extreme Measures

  Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

  Zitter, Jessica Nutik

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• The Graceful Exit

  10 Things You Need to Know : Face Reality, Make Wise Choices and Find Hope at the End of Life

  Hanford, Mona

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• Knocking on Heaven's Door

  the Path to a Better Way of Death

  Butler, Katy, 1949-

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  As someone who experienced the prolonged and painful death of her father as modern medicine pushed the boundaries of his physical life, the author is in a unique position to share her story and question the wisdom of this relatively new, impersonal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Modern Death

  How Medicine Changed the End of Life

  Warraich, Haider

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• Planning for Uncertainty

  Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family

  Doukas, David John

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  Two physicians give plain advice on how to make this very important plan that will help your loved ones know your wishes. From Johns Hopkins Press.

• With the End in Mind

  Dying, Death and Wisdom in An Age of Denial

  Mannix, Kathryn

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• The Conversation Project Starter Kit

  View on theconversationproject.org

  Talking or even thinking about the end of life is a difficult thing. This guide can get you started. Available in several languages.

• Senior Navigator: Advance Health Care Directives

  View on seniornavigator.org

  An online overview of advance health care directives.

• Virginia Advance Health Care Directives Registry

  View on connectvirginia.org

  A place to register your health directive so it can be accessed by care providers. From the Virginia Department of Health.