A Chosen Death: The Dying Confront Assisted Suicide

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Summary: You won't regret reading A Chosen Death
Review: Dr. Lonny Shavelson offers a powerful, wonderful, and rareinsight into the medicalization of death in America. He chronicles several terminally ill individuals and their attempts to die with dignity. I couldn't put the book down. Courbet Anderson, Gerontologist

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Summary: A penetrating look at assisted suicide
Review: The author is a physician who followed several cases ofdying persons who from the onset of their terminal illnessesexpressed a desire to commit suicide towards the end. Dr.Shavelson tracked these cases over 3-4 years and records the medical and emotional roller-coaster the patients went through. The best examination on a personal basis of assisted suicide so far published.