PATIENT CHECKLIST

 

• Check with your Life insurance company
• Understand your illness and the prognosis or outcome
• Understand any other options to help you manage
• Set out your will and appoint an executor
• Designate a next-of-kin and let them know your plans 
• Make funeral arrangements- cremation or burial
• Let you spouse and/or children know your thoughts on MAID

 

BOOKS

 

Wehr, Janet. Peaceful Passages. Theosophical Publishing House. Wheaton, Illinois. 2015

 

 

 

Martin, Sandra. A Good Death. Harper Collins Publishers Ltd. Toronto. 2016

 

 

 

Frances Norwood. The Maintenance of Life. Preventing Social Death through

Euthanasia Talk and End-of-Life Care-Lessons from The Netherlands

 

 

 

Atul Gawande. Being Mortal. Medicine and what matters in the End.