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"This book serves as a manual of death education that will help patients and their advocates to decide how they wish their lives to end, with practical and legal information to achieve that goal."--

How to get the death you want : a practical and moral guide / John Abraham.

Hemlock's cup : the struggle for death with dignity / Donald W. Cox.

The third in a four-part series looking at difficult decisions medical healthcare professionals have to make. This episode focuses on how open medical professionals should be with their patients. What is the best way to break life shattering news?

Harsh realities. Pt. 3.

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 14.3 x 15.5 cm

A daughter hides her thoughts from her ailing father as to his condition. Coloured lithograph by [J.S.].

The doctor says: "My dear sir you look this morning the picture of health. I have no doubt at my next visit I shall find you entirely cured of all your earthly infirmitys". An example of antiphrasis: appearing to say one thing while meaning the opposite

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 21.8 x 31.5 cm

An obese physician pleased with the progress of his emaciated terminally ill patient. Coloured etching by A.M.D. after R. Newton.

Accompanies the exhibition of photography by Walter Schels held from 9 April-18 May 2008 under the title: Life before death. Provides biographical information for each of the subjects of the photographs in the exhibition.

Noch mal leben : eine Ausstellung über das Sterben / texte, Beate Lakotta.

"Written particularly with the GP and Primary Health Care team in mind, this book provides a comprehensive, yet practical guide to palliative care covering issues from clinical skills and service provision to ethical and psychosocial matters and includes a discussion of complementary therapies in palliative care and the patients' views. It advocates a holistic approach to care based on the editors' experience of the specialist and primary care environments. The book will prove useful to a wide range of professionals and students including doctors, nurses and pharmacists."--Jacket.

Handbook of palliative care / edited by Christina Faull, Yvonne Carter, Richard Woof.

4 unnumbered pages, 28 pages ; 19 cm (4to)

A funeral sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson, the late wife of Henry Sampson, Dr. of Physick, who died Nov. 24. M.DCLxxxix / by John Howe ... Published principally for the use of such as languish under painful and chronical diseases.

Leaves falling gently : living fully with serious & life-limiting illness through mindfulness, compassion, & connectedness / Susan Bauer-Wu ; foreword by Joan Halifax.

Each figure has a speech banner emerging from his mouth, bearing one sentence. 'Sumus fumus': we are smoke, expressing human ephemerality

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How to get the death you want : a practical and moral guide / John Abraham.

Hemlock's cup : the struggle for death with dignity / Donald W. Cox.

Harsh realities. Pt. 3.

A daughter hides her thoughts from her ailing father as to his condition. Coloured lithograph by [J.S.].

An obese physician pleased with the progress of his emaciated terminally ill patient. Coloured etching by A.M.D. after R. Newton.

Noch mal leben : eine Ausstellung über das Sterben / texte, Beate Lakotta.

Handbook of palliative care / edited by Christina Faull, Yvonne Carter, Richard Woof.

A funeral sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson, the late wife of Henry Sampson, Dr. of Physick, who died Nov. 24. M.DCLxxxix / by John Howe ... Published principally for the use of such as languish under painful and chronical diseases.

Leaves falling gently : living fully with serious & life-limiting illness through mindfulness, compassion, & connectedness / Susan Bauer-Wu ; foreword by Joan Halifax.

King James I of England on his deathbed, attended by courtiers trying to poison him. Etching by or after W. Hollar, ca. 1672.

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How to get the death you want : a practical and moral guide / John Abraham.

Hemlock's cup : the struggle for death with dignity / Donald W. Cox.

Harsh realities. Pt. 3.

A daughter hides her thoughts from her ailing father as to his condition. Coloured lithograph by [J.S.].

An obese physician pleased with the progress of his emaciated terminally ill patient. Coloured etching by A.M.D. after R. Newton.

Noch mal leben : eine Ausstellung über das Sterben / texte, Beate Lakotta.

Handbook of palliative care / edited by Christina Faull, Yvonne Carter, Richard Woof.

A funeral sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson, the late wife of Henry Sampson, Dr. of Physick, who died Nov. 24. M.DCLxxxix / by John Howe ... Published principally for the use of such as languish under painful and chronical diseases.

Leaves falling gently : living fully with serious & life-limiting illness through mindfulness, compassion, & connectedness / Susan Bauer-Wu ; foreword by Joan Halifax.

King James I of England on his deathbed, attended by courtiers trying to poison him. Etching by or after W. Hollar, ca. 1672.

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