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Synopsis
Dr. Preston s terminally ill patients and their families face the predicament of how to die when suffering has been medically extended. Through their conversations, they demonstrate how dying is a process, how physicians alter when and how we die, and why natural death is a misnomer after medical interventions prolong the dying process. They explain why patients not physicians or others should be able to direct their dying and make decisions for themselves about when and how to die.
Dr. Preston gives compelling reasons why aid in dying is not suicide when used by terminally ill patients, and why physicians who help them die are not assisting suicide. He shows why aid-in-dying is ethical and consistent with other current and legal medical practices that help patients die.
He debunks claims that legalized aid in dying would be abused for financial, social, or political reasons. He shows how outdated cultural attitudes impede understanding of how we die, why many physicians withdraw from their dying patients, and how the sanctity-of-life principle has become distorted to obstruct aid in dying.Patient-Directed Dying is a manifesto calling for mercy and reason in helping terminally ill patients die a peaceful death.
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About the Author
Thomas A. Preston, M.D., was for more than 20 years a professor of medicine at the University of Washington. He has appeared on numerous national television programs, and his articles about medicine have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times, among others. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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