Stephen P Kiernan is a writer and journalist for the Burlington Free Press. His numerous awards include the Gerald Loeb Award for Financial Journalism, the Associated Press Managing Editors Freedom of Information Award, and the George Polk Award. He lives in Charlotte, Vermont.
"Damn, I wish I'd had this book before my own father died. Part a
guide to thinking through the policy questions surrounding the end
of life, and part an informal handbook for helping with the deaths
of your own loved ones, it also offers a final and supreme gift:
the chance to begin thinking about what your own life means in the
context of its inevitable end." --Bill McKibben author of The End
of Nature "With an uncommon mix of stories and scholarship, Stephen
Kiernan has described the challenges that remain at life's end,
despite efforts to reform care over the past few decades. With
candor, clarity, and an advocate's sense of urgency, he seeks to
understand why our acute-care system has been so resistant to
change and how we can infuse
greater humanity to life's final chapter." --Joseph J. Fins, M.D.,
F.A.C.P., Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Medical
College of Cornell University, and author of A Palliative Ethic of
Care: Clinical Wisdom at Life's End "Last Rites paints a
frightening picture of the disorganized, deficient, and disastrous
ways many people are cared for and die. Thankfully, Kiernan goes
beyond expos� to uncover hopeful progress and practical ways to
protect and nurture the people we love. Kiernan's Last Rites is to
end-of-life care today what Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed was to car
safety in the 1960s. This is one book that America must read!"
--Ira Byock, M.D., Professor of Palliative Medicine, Dartmouth
Medical School, and author of Dying Well and The Four Things That
Matter Most
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