A Midwife Through the Dying Process

Approximately two-thirds of deaths in the United States involve a doctor's partnership with an individual whether it be for the administration of pain relief or sedation or for the act of discontinuing or not beginning life-sustaining treatment. In A Midwife through the Dying Process Timothy Quill M.D. explores that partnership and the complex end-of-life issues that surround physician-assisted death. Here are the stories of nine individuals and their very different endings common only in each person's struggle to confront issues of law and ethics and to realize a good death.