Creating Your Own
Advance Directive
for Medical Care
by James Park
(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books:
www.existentialbooks.com, 2006—First
edition) 248 pages
(ISBN: 978-0-89231-800-1; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number:
KF3827.E87.P37
2006)
Your
Last Year asks 24
basic, open-ended Questions
that should be answered by each person
to create a comprehensive Advance Directive for Medical Care.
Your written Answers to these Questions
will become the basic content of your Advance Directive.
And when you fulfill the specific requirements of your state or country,
your Advance Directive will become your legal instructions for medical
care.
You will decide your medical
ethics, including such matters as:
appointing proxies to make your medical decisions;
what quality of life
or level of personhood
you would find acceptable;
pain control; nursing home; financial limits; medical information;
life-ending decisions; disposition of your remains;
philosophical-religious beliefs; & readiness for death.
INTERNET LINKS TO FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR LAST YEAR
Table of
Contents for Your Last Year
These four pages gives a complete picture of what Your Last Year contains.
Several selections from the book are linked from this Table of Contents.
These pages shared on the Internet amount to about 45 pages total,
or about 25% of the book.
When James Park's Advance Directive (see below) is also included,
about 40% of the book is available on the Internet.
Copyright page
for Your Last Year
This pages provides all of the Library of Congress subject headings
under which this book might be classified.
James Park's
Advance Directive for Medical Care
This Internet version (2004) is not exactly the same
as the version printed in Your
Last Year.
But it gives all the same basic Answers.
It is about 50 pages long.
Summary of
James Park's Advance Directive
This shorter version is just 4 pages long,
containing one paragraph for each of the 24 Questions.
This summary also appears in Your
Last Year,
at the beginning of James Park's comprehensive Advance Directive.
AUTHOR: James Leonard Park
TITLE: Your Last Year
SUBTITLE: Creating Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER: KF3827.E87.P37
2006
NUMBER OF PAGES: 248
SIZE: 8-1/2 inches wide X 11 inches high X 1/2
inch thick.
PUBLISHER: Existential Books
PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE: http://www.existentialbooks.com
PUBLICATION DATE: June, 2006—1st
edition FRONT COVER
BINDING: 5 aluminum screw posts—does
not lie flat when open
BINDING: comb—19 plastic rings in a black spine—does lie flat when open
BINDING: loose-leaf notebook—choice
of colors—does lie flat when
open
ISBN: 978-0-89231-800-1
WEBSITE FOR THIS BOOK: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/YLY.html
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