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This volume gives an overview of what is known from an academic perspective about the end of life in Switzerland. The authors, who represent different academic disciplines, deal with crucial questions, such as experiences of individuals, personal decisions concerning their own end of life, care situations, costs, legal regulations, and ideals of dying.

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This volume gives an overview of what is known from an academic perspective about the end of life in Switzerland. The authors, who represent different academic disciplines, deal with crucial questions, such as experiences of individuals, personal decisions concerning their own end of life, care situations, costs, legal regulations, and ideals of dying.

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This volume gives an overview of what is known from an academic perspective about the end of life in Switzerland. The authors, who represent different academic disciplines, deal with crucial questions, such as experiences of individuals, personal decisions concerning their own end of life, care situations, costs, legal regulations, and ideals of dying.

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Welche Formen der Lebensverlängerung dienen den Menschen? Wo wird Lebensverlängerung zur bloßen Sterbensverlängerung ohne therapeutischen Nutzen? Dies sind die drängenden Grund- fragen der modernen Intensivmedizin. Lebensverlängerung ist die Aufgabe jeden Arztes. Häufig ist dies am Lebensende mit großen Belastungen für Schwerkranke und ihre Angehörigen, aber wenig Heilungserfolg verbunden. Davon zeugen Patientenverfügungen, die auf eine stärkere Rückbindung der Behandlungsstrategien an den Willen des Patienten zielen. Das Buch untersucht die Möglichkeiten zur Humanisierung der Intensivmedizin und gibt Entscheidungshilfen für Patienten, Ärzte und Angehörige. Es klärt die ärztlichen Bedingungen der Pflicht zur Lebensverlängerung und der Not des Sterbenlassens durch Beiträge führender Chirurgen.

medical ethics --- end of life care --- life support --- Medical ethics.

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Today most people die gradually, from incremental illnesses, rather than from the heart attacks or fast-moving diseases that killed earlier generations. Given this new reality, the essays in Final Acts explore how we can make informed and caring end-of-life choices for ourselves and for those we loveùand what can happen without such planning. Contributors include patients, caretakers, physicians, journalists, lawyers, social workers, educators, hospital administrators, academics, psychologists, and a poet, and among them are ethicists, religious believers, and nonbelievers. Some write moving, personal accounts of "good" or 'bad" deaths; others examine the ethical, social, and political implications of slow dying. Essays consider death from natural causes, suicide, and aid-in-dying (assisted suicide). Writing in a style free of technical jargon, the contributors discuss documents that should be prepared (health proxy, do-not-resuscitate order, living will, power of attorney); decision-making (over medical interventions, life support, hospice and palliative care, aid-in-dying, treatment location, speaking for those who can no longer express their will); and the roles played by religion, custom, family, friends, caretakers, money, the medical establishment, and the government. For those who yearn for some measure of control over death, the essayists in Final Acts, from very different backgrounds and with different personal and professional experiences around death and dying, offer insight and hope.

Thanatology. --- Death. --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Cardiac Death --- Determination of Death --- End Of Life --- End-Of-Life --- Near-Death Experience --- Death, Cardiac --- Fatal Outcome --- Philosophy