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Modern medical technology has lengthened our lives and forever altered how we face our deaths -- but it has also created painful dilemmas that lawyers, doctors, spiritual leaders, and, above all, patients and their families are struggling with every day. Now, drawing on more than six years of firsthand research and reporting, noted journalist Marilyn Webb has written the one essential book we need to understand these new realities -- and to take positive steps to improve the care of the dying.

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Modern medical technology has lengthened our lives and forever altered how we face our deaths -- but it has also created painful dilemmas that lawyers, doctors, spiritual leaders, and, above all, patients and their families are struggling with every day. Now, drawing on more than six years of firsthand research and reporting, noted journalist Marilyn Webb has written the one essential book we need to understand these new realities -- and to take positive steps to improve the care of the dying.
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Autorenporträt
Marilyn Webb's articles on dying have appeared in New York magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, Parade, The New York Times and USA Today.  A former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today who has taught at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, she is currently speaking nationwide at professional conferences and community organizations about the topics in this book.   Joanne Lynn, M.D., is the Director of the Center to Improve Care of the Dying, George Washington University. Timothy Quill, M.D., is the author of Death and Dignity and A Midwife Through the Dying Process.