Chosen Death: The Dying Confront Assisted Suicide
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Book Overview
This text tells the stories of five terminally-ill people who seriously considered suicide as they were dying. It describes the emotional, spiritual and intellectual questions that each person faced as death neared.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0684801000
ISBN13:9780684801001
Release Date:June 1995
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.01 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
A moving read.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This is one of the finest books in this genre. Stories about real people and the caring doctor who befriended them, tended them and saw to their final wishes. Highly recommended! Betsy S.
You won't regret reading A Chosen Death
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
Dr. Lonny Shavelson offers a powerful, wonderful, and rare insight into the medicalization of death in America. He chronicles several terminally ill individuals and their attempts to die with dignity. I couldn't put the book down. Courbet Anderson, Gerontologist
A penetrating look at assisted suicide
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 29 years ago
The author is a physician who followed several cases of dying persons who from the onset of their terminal illnesses expressed a desire to commit suicide towards the end. Dr.Shavelson tracked these cases over 3-4 years and records the medical and emotional roller-coaster the patients went through. The best examination on a personal basis of assisted suicide so far published.
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