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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

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History of human medicine --- Death. --- Health. --- Disease. --- History of Medicine. --- Medicine, History --- Medicine --- Diseases --- Normalcy --- Normality --- Normalities --- Cardiac Death --- Determination of Death --- Near-Death Experience --- Death, Cardiac --- Thanatology --- Fatal Outcome --- history --- Death --- DISEASE --- Health --- history. --- Disease --- History. --- History Medicines --- Medicine Histories --- Medicines, History --- End Of Life --- End-Of-Life --- History of Medicine

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Euthanasia --- DEATH --- ATTITUDE TO DEATH --- Attitude to Death. --- Death. --- Euthanasia. --- #gsdb5 --- Euthanasia, Involuntary --- Involuntary Euthanasia --- Mercy Killing --- Killing, Mercy --- Killings, Mercy --- Mercy Killings --- Right to Die --- Suicide, Assisted --- Bioethical Issues --- Cardiac Death --- Determination of Death --- Near-Death Experience --- Death, Cardiac --- Thanatology --- Fatal Outcome --- Attitudes to Death --- Death, Attitude to --- Death, Attitudes to --- Death --- End Of Life --- End-Of-Life --- Attitude to Death --- gsdb5.

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Near-death experiences --- Death. --- Parapsychology. --- Expériences de mort temporaire --- Near-death experiences. --- Bijna-dood-ervaringen. --- Périodiques. --- Experiences, Near-death --- Psychic Research --- Clairvoyance --- Extrasensory Perception --- Psychical Research --- Extrasensory Perceptions --- Perception, Extrasensory --- Perceptions, Extrasensory --- Research, Psychic --- Research, Psychical --- Cardiac Death --- Determination of Death --- Near-Death Experience --- Death, Cardiac --- Death, Apparent --- Spirit Possession --- Telepathy --- Spiritual Therapies --- Thanatology --- Fatal Outcome --- Near death experiences. --- End Of Life --- End-Of-Life --- Death --- Parapsychology --- Mort. --- Parapsychologie. --- deaths. --- Periodicals. --- Expériences de mort imminente

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In The Evolution of Death, the follow-up to Becoming Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy, also published by SUNY Press, Stanley Shostak argues that death, like life, can evolve. Observing that literature, philosophy, religion, genetics, physics, and gerontology still struggle to explain why we die, Shostak explores the mystery of death from a biological perspective.Death, Shostak claims, is not the end of a linear journey, static and indifferent to change. Instead, he suggests, the current efforts to live longer have profoundly affected our ecological niche, and we are evolving into a long-lived species. Pointing to the artificial means currently used to prolong life, he argues that as we become increasingly juvenilized in our adult life, death will become significantly and evolutionarily delayed. As bodies evolve, the embryos of succeeding generations may be accumulating the stem cells that preserve and restore, providing the resources necessary to live longer and longer. If trends like this continue, Shostak contends, future human beings may join the ranks of other animals with indefinite life spans.

Life Expectancy --- Evolution. --- Aging. --- Death. --- Life expectancy. --- Expectancy of life --- Expectation of life --- Life spans (Biology) --- Vital statistics --- Premature death --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Cardiac Death --- Determination of Death --- End Of Life --- End-Of-Life --- Near-Death Experience --- Death, Cardiac --- Fatal Outcome --- Aging, Biological --- Biological Aging --- Mutation Accumulation --- trends. --- Philosophy --- Physiological effect