A Dignified Ending challenges the idea that prolonging life by every means possible is the only reasonable response to a dire diagnosis or to intractable suffering. It uses true accounts to illustrate how people have choreographed their deaths, and it recommends that death with dignity laws include dementias and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Über den Autor Lewis M. MD Cohen
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Lew Cohen MD, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Medicine and Health (2008), two Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency awards (2008, 2015), and a Bogliasco Fellowship for the Arts and Humanity (2014), as well as the highest honors given by the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. He has been a contributor to the Atlantic, Slate, and Huffington Post and is the author of a nonfiction book, No Good Deed: A Story of Medicine, Murder Accusations, and the Debate Over How We Die (2010). Lew is a psychiatrist at Baystate Medical Center where he is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate and an Adjunct Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is an active palliative medicine researcher with over 100 academic publications relating to the integration of bioethics, nephrology, and psychiatry.
