Putting Your Priorities First at Life’s End - Finish Strong (SECOND EDITION)

This second edition of Finish Strong by Barbara Coombs Lee, the President Emerita/Senior Adviser of Compassion & Choices, provides a guide to achieving the positive end-of-life experience you want and deserve. The book features valuable new material, including a new chapter called "Race and Culture Matter," an Afterword by Kim Callinan, the President/CEO of Compassion & Choices, and a detailed index.

Talking about death in America can be difficult, but life's end is an eventual reality. Finish Strong is for those who want an end-of-life experience that aligns with the life they've lived. It offers concrete actions to help individuals live their best lives to the very end.

The book guides readers through finding a partner-doctor who will honor their values and beliefs with humanity, deference, and candor. It also helps identify what matters most as vigor wanes and prioritize accordingly. Readers will learn how to have meaningful conversations with doctors and family about expectations and wishes, as well as how to avoid the "overtreatment conveyor belt" and know when "slow medicine" is the best option to maintain quality of life. Navigating hospice, the ultimate healing experience, is also covered.

Written with candor and clarity by a nurse, physician assistant, and attorney who became a leading advocate for end-of-life options, Finish Strong can help readers achieve the positive end-of-life experience they deserve. The table of contents includes a Foreword by Haider Warraich, M.D., a Preface by Barbara Coombs Lee, and a Note About the Second Edition, followed by an Invitation and chapters on Talking About Death, Overtreatment and Diminishing Returns, Let Me Die Like a Doctor, Hope & Heroism, Hospice: The Healing Option, The Secret of Slow Medicine, Escaping Dementia, Inside a Growing Advocacy, Race and Culture Matter, People Taking Control, and Space for the Sacred. The book concludes with It's Harder Than You Think (But You Can Do It), an Afterword by Kim Callinan, an Appendix of Tools to Take Charge, Acknowledgments, information about the Author and Compassion & Choices, and Notes on Sources, as well as a detailed Index.

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