Preparing for a Better End

Expert Lessons on Death and Dying for You and Your Loved Ones

By: Dan Morhaim, Shelley Morhaim

Narrated by: Peter Lerman

Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

In this practical guidebook, Dr. Dan Morhaim and Shelley Morhaim offer listeners hope, empowerment, and inspiration. What we choose for our end-of-life care, they assert, depends on accurate information and on our personal values. We need these not only to understand new medical advances, but also to appreciate the wisdom of humanity's past and present.

Dan Morhaim, an emergency medicine physician and former Maryland state legislator, guides listeners through the medical, legal, and financial maze of end-of-life care. He details the care choices available to patients and explains why living wills and advance directives are a necessity for every American. He tells listeners where to find free and readily available living wills and advance directives and why it is so important for everyone young and old to complete them. Meanwhile, Shelley Morhaim draws on her experience as a therapeutic music practitioner for hospice and hospital patients to offer compassion to listeners facing hard decisions.

Organized as a roadmap that people should follow when they plan end-of-life care and contingencies, this book helps listeners keep decisions in their own hands and spare their families the uncertainty and trauma of guessing about their end-of-life wishes. Breaking down the barriers to a difficult but essential topic, Preparing for a Better End helps listeners open this often-avoided discussion with their loved ones while providing the information and guidance needed to ensure that deeply held values are reflected and honored.

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