Displaying 1 of 1 2012 Format: Book Title: At the end of life : true stories about how we die / edited by Lee Gutkind ; introduction by Francine Prose. Publisher, Date: Pittsburgh : Creative Nonfiction, 2012. Description: xxii, 255 pages ; 23 cm Summary: A collection of twenty-two personal narratives explores what should be done in the health care system with regards to death, dying, and palliative care. Subjects: Terminal care. Death. Caregivers. Terminally ill -- Family relationships. Palliative treatment. Hospice care. Death -- Psychological aspects. Other Author: Gutkind, Lee. Prose, Francine, 1947- Contents: Editor's Note: Frank at the piano -- Foreword: New approaches to end-of-life care / Karen Wolk Feinstein -- Introduction: Last days / Francine Prose -- To morning / Anne Jacobson -- On bearing witness / Laurie Foos -- Insights in the rearview mirror / Phyllis Galley Westover -- The general / Larry D. Cripe -- Yellow taxi / Eve Joseph -- Wake-up call / Catherine A. Musemeche -- Simple gifts / Beecher Grogan -- Living and dying well / Therese Zink -- A better place / Valerie Seiling Jacobs -- Waiting (to go home) / Howard Mansfield -- Mr. Stone / Diana Flescher -- Rules / Maria Meindl -- Life and death and 911 / Caroline Burau -- Snowing in Krakow / Marcin Chwistek -- Do you remember? / Patricia McCarthy -- The business of grief / Joe Primo -- This is blood / Sandell Morse -- A figurative death / Carol Cooley -- The measure of time / Amanda J. Redig -- The deep truth / Eugenia Smith -- The resurrection of Wonder Woman / Eleanor Vincent -- Twelve breaths a minute / Gulchin A. Ergun. LCCN: 2014395380 ISBN: 9781937163044 1937163040 Other Number: 753622468 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 324376 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 616.029 At the e Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1