A Midwife through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life 1st Edition

This is a great book for those assisting a loved one through the end of life.Just as midwives encourage mothers to create a birth plan for welcoming life into the world, we should also encourage a loving exit plan for leaving the world.

Timothy E. Quill, MDMidwife Through the Dying Process:Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) 239 pages Dr. Timothy Quill became famous for disclosingthat he helped one of his patients to die by providing the necessary drugs.This happens in only one of the nine deaths discussed in this book.Midwife Through the Dying Processtraces the diseases and terminal illnesses of nine peoplepersonally known by Dr. Quill in Rochester, New York.The patients' families were almost always involved in the dying process.Terminal sedation is the closest Dr. Quill is now willing to gotoward helping patients to die.But the book contains many useful insights into the dying processas seen thru the eyes of the doctor.If you would like to read other books about dying,search the Internet for these precise words:"Books on Helping People to Die".James Leonard Park, advocate of the right-to-die with careful safeguards.