Five Last Acts, the Exit Path 2015


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(Expanded edition. For previous reviews, please see http: //www.amazon.com/dp/1482594099) With 844 pages, it is the most extensive volume in print on the subject, meticulously researched and scientifically substantiated. No method of self-euthanasia can be perfect, in spite of what some claim. What this book does is give you the best evidence and advice available and backs it up with scientific references that you can check for yourself. ***104 pages on use of inert gas (nitrogen, helium).*** ***205 pages on drugs.*** ***Hundreds more pages on voluntary refusal of food and liquid*** ***the low-down on 'fringe' methods*** As well as precautions, social, legal and ethical concerns, tips and checklists, ***100 illustrations*** and 'how-to' diagrams, 7 tables and more than 1000 references. Peer-reviewed evidence and examination of alternative theories. (See the 'look-inside' feature for list of contents, or the publications page on the 'ExitEuthanasia Blog'.)




Five Last Acts (2nd Edition)


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(Please note that a 2015 updated edition is also available). Hailed in 2010 as the most complete source available, Five Last Acts II details options and methods for rational suicide in the event of unbearable and unrelievable suffering. Bringing reassurance, knowledge and hope, and the strength to face an uncertain future.(Please note a 2015 version is now available.)Even with modern technology, not all ends are good ones. Although palliative care continues to make great strides, the final hours or days of some people are so difficult that they elect to take matters into their own hands and end things sooner rather than later. Once that decision is taken, lack of knowledge, planning or preparation can result in even greater suffering.Five Last Acts collects the wisdom of multi-disciplinary research, workshops and developments worldwide in a major new volume. The body of the work is written in easy-to-understand language to offer a practical guide for every reader. Technical explanations are reserved for the appendix. Five Last Acts provides the reliable options for the last act in your own play.Feedback on the first edition: "I have just finished reading your most excellent book, Five Last Acts; it is so well-researched, so informative, so clear, that it leads me to ask this question: which rational person would not want to obtain a copy of this book as an insurance policy against an uncertain future?"Chris GoodwinThe new edition of Five Last Acts is completely revised and expanded, giving even clearer insights and the most comprehensive guidance on self-deliverance worldwide. Over 400 pages with more than 40 illustrations and over 450 references. It is the only book of its kind that includes the emergency methods and practices that can even be used if one finds oneself confined to a hospital or a nursing home




Managing Chronicity in Unequal States


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By portraying the circumstances of people living with chronic conditions in radically different contexts, from Alzheimer’s patients in the UK to homeless people with psychiatric disorders in India, Managing Chronicity in Unequal States offers glimpses of what dealing with medically complex conditions in stratified societies means. While in some places the state regulates and intrudes on the most intimate aspects of chronic living, in others it is utterly and criminally absent. Either way, it is a present/absent actor that deeply conditions people’s opportunities and strategies of care. This book explores how individuals, groups and communities navigate uncertain and unequal healthcare systems, in which inherent moral judgements on human worth have long-lasting effects on people’s wellbeing. This is key reading for anyone wishing to deconstruct the issues at stake when analysing how care and chronicity are entangled with multiple institutional, economic, and other circumstantial factors. How people access the available informal and formal resources as well as how they react to official diagnoses and decisions are important facets of the management of chronicity. In the arena of care, people with chronic conditions find themselves negotiating restrictions and handling issues of power and (inter)dependency in relationships of inequality and proximity. This is particularly relevant in current times, when care has given in to the lure of the market, and the possibility of living a long and fulfilling life has been drastically reduced, transformed into a ‘reward’ for the few who have been deemed worthy of it.




I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die


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A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.




Dignified Dying


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Methods for a humane and self-chosen death. The aim of this book is to stimulate communication between very ill or very old persons and their relatives. The hope is to give them some peace of mind when they have a well-considered and unwavering wish to die, even after discussing this wish with loved ones. This peace of mind will come from the knowledge that they can take control of such an intimate process as their own death.




Death by Living


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Each of us is in the middle of a story. In this astoundingly unique book, bestselling author N.D. Wilson reminds us that to truly live we must recognize that we are dying. Cause of death: life. Death by Living is a poetic exploration of faith, futility, and the incredible joy of this mortal life. N.D. Wilson recounts stories from his life in poetic prose, giving perspective on the life we're given by God. Death by Living explores the topics of family, grappling with the death of loved ones, and how to live with intention to get the most out of our time on Earth. Wilson encourages us to live hard and die grateful, and to see Christ in every pair of eyes. To write a past we won’t regret. All of us must pause and breathe. See the past, see life as the fruit of providence and thousands of personal narratives. We did not choose where to set our feet in time, but we choose where to set them next. We stand in the now. God says create. Live. Choose. Shape the past. Etch your life in stone, and what you make will be forever. In Death by Living, you will: Experience life with renewed wonder Recognize mundane moments as opportunities Learn to live hard and die grateful Recognize death as a gift instead of something to be feared At once inspiring, humorous, and unbelievably moving, this a book that you will read again and again, finding fresh perspective each time you open it.




Five Last Acts


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The most complete book of its kind. 750 pages.The knowledge that lets you control your own death also gives a sense of control in life, especially when the future is unknown. This book is: § WHEN FACING unbearable and unrelievable suffering, to know when and how to draw one's own life to a close - rather than be at the mercy of lingering illness. Detailed methods.§ FOR RESEARCHERS needing access to the fullest and best-evidenced information§ FOR EVERY RESPONSIBLE ADULT who wants to be in control of his or her own living and dying.Why this book? Sometimes we have a fairy-tale belief that everything will be fine ... but then, suddenly things take an unexpected turn for the worse and it is hard to see a path ahead. At this point, planning and preparation make a crucial difference. Whether you use this book to take control of your last moments, to die when and how you will; or whether you use that knowledge to give you he strength to face an unknown future: knowledge is power. The Exit Path is to give you that power.HELIUM is the popular means of self-deliverance among members of 'right-to-die' societies; yet still there are last minute failures, botched attempts or panics that most 'guides' don't want you to know about. The Exit Path puts the technique under a microscope, shows the variations and how to eliminate failures. With over 100 pages (and over 50 photographs and step-by-step diagrams) on the use of helium in rational suicide alone, The Exit Path gives you control, and offers the opportunity to make failure impossible. Eliminate problems before you think of them with correct information and the best solutions to dilemmas. The book also shows you how to obtain all that you need. You can get rid of doubts and put your mind at rest.The most extensive of any self-deliverance book you can buy, The Exit Path has:§ OVER 750 PAGES§ OVER 1000 REFERENCES with supporting evidence§ 100 RELEVANT ILLUSTRATIONS§ 7 TABLES§ "IN A NUTSHELL" EXPLANATIONS§ DETAILED MEDICAL EXPERTIZE§ EASY-TO-USE, STEP-BY-STEP "HOW-TO" GUIDES§ THE BEST DATA-LED REFERENCE BOOK. § 58 ILLUSTRATIONS ON HELIUM METHOD§ 25 ILLUSTRATIONS ON COMPRESSION METHOD No other book provides the level of expert detail you will find in The Exit Path.With problems over dwindling helium supplies, carotid artery compression is the fast-growing field of interest in self-deliverance. With brand-new commissioned material and an in-depth examination of the objections and concerns, The Exit Path gives you the know-how on this valuable emergency technique.The Exit Path examines differences in the action of SLEEPING DRUGS, what to use, and how. It reveals metadata on the properties of ANTI-EMETICS to help you choose best solutions.FASTING TO DEATH continues to haunt the right-to-die movement with apologists recommending it as a near-perfect way and critics unsure. Horrific deaths have resulted from premature recommendation by well-meaning individuals, even among those aware of dangers and how to avoid them. The Exit Path analyses differences between fasting in hospital and fasting at home. You will read exclusive guidance based on the most comprehensive data and interviews with expertise worldwide.Knowing how to ensure a peaceful death is only half the picture. We all face the prospect of "all this" coming to an end. For the first time in a self-deliverance manual, The Exit Path provides practical approaches based on proven techniques for facing down the moment of death.The Exit Path takes you through every stage - the planning, dealing with your doctor, your family, an examination of the law, emotional concerns, Dignitas, and even provides handy checklists to let you stay on top of the many dilemmas that arise as life approaches its end.The Exit Path includes a great amount of previously unpublished or undisclosed material. Please see the Contents pages to get an idea of the true scope of this volume.




The 5 Choices


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"Time management for the 21st century"--Jacket.




Exit Ghost


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Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age. Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes. They will flee post-9/11 Manhattan for his country refuge, and he will return to city life. But from the time he meets them, Zuckerman also wants to swap his solitude for the erotic challenge of the young woman, Jamie, whose allure draws him back to all that he thought he had left behind: intimacy, the vibrant play of heart and body. The second connection is with a figure from Zuckerman’s youth, Amy Bellette, companion and muse to Zuckerman’s first literary hero, E. I. Lonoff. The once irresistible Amy is now an old woman depleted by illness, guarding the memory of that grandly austere American writer who showed Nathan the solitary path to a writing vocation. The third connection is with Lonoff’s would-be biographer, a young literary hound who will do and say nearly anything to get to Lonoff’s “great secret.” Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be involved again, with love, mourning, desire, and animosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities. Haunted by Roth’s earlier work The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost is an amazing leap into yet another phase in this great writer’s insatiable commitment to fiction.




Euthanasia: Searching for the Full Story


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This open access book has been written by ten Belgian health care professionals, nurses, university professors and doctors specializing in palliative care and ethicists who, together, raise questions concerning the practice of euthanasia. They share their experiences and reflections born out of their confrontation with requests for euthanasia and end-of-life support in a country where euthanasia has been decriminalized since 2002 and is now becoming a trivial topic.Far from evoking any militancy, these stories of life and death present the other side of a reality needs to be evaluated more rigorously.Featuring multidisciplinary perspectives, this though-provoking and original book is intended not only for caregivers but also for anyone who questions the meaning of death and suffering, as well as the impact of a law passed in 2002. Presenting real-world cases and experiences, it highlights the complexity of situations and the consequences of the euthanasia law.This book appeals to palliative care providers, hematologists, oncologists, psychiatrists, nurses and health professionals as well as researchers, academics, policy-makers, and social scientists working in health care. It is also a unique resource for those in countries where the decriminalization of euthanasia is being considered. Sometimes shocking, it focuses on facts and lived experiences to challenge readers and offer insights into euthanasia in Belgium.