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Staying in Charge: Practical Plans for the End of Your Life
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From the Back Cover
Practical, emotional, and spiritual guidance
The time may come when you or a loved one has to face a life-threatening illness; when you realize that you or your loved one may be dying. It’s never easy to think about the last years of life, but being prepared can help you have your hopes and wishes realized. By taking the time now to plan for the future, you can maintain control of your life even at the very end.
Staying in Charge is a supportive guide to opening up the lines of communication and making life more fulfilling from the first day of diagnosis of a serious illness. This reassuring handbook helps you to focus on important matters such as: Handling a living will or a do-not-resuscitate orderDeciding upon medical power of attorneyGathering support from friends and familyAnd, most significantly, learning to live in the midst of dying
Based on the wisdom of many experts and caregivers in the field, Staying in Charge offers everything you need to know to make the last years of life more fruitful, less isolating, and more comfortable and peaceful–whenever and wherever the journey occurs.
"Few of us think of our own death with an open heart or a clear mind. Kaplan and Lukas courageously and compassionately demystify this unknown part of life with practical and spiritual guidance. With Staying in Charge, the secret is out: You can plan for death and, in so doing, learn how to live more fully."
–Beth Witrogen McLeod, author of Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal
"Staying in Charge: Practical Plans for the End of Your Life means what it says. When it comes time to manage a serious illness, we all want to be in control. There isn’t a person alive who shouldn’t read and absorb the counsel of this valorous–and unexpectedly cheering–work."
–Stefan Kanfer, former editor, Time magazine author of Ball of Fire and A Summer World
About the Author
KAREN ORLOFF KAPLAN, M.P.H., Sc.D., is the President and CEO of Last Acts Partnership, a nonprofit membership organization that helps to improve care for people who are dying and raises awareness about how to obtain end-of-life care.
CHRISTOPHER LUKAS, author of Silent Grief, is an Emmy-winning television producer, director, and writer who specializes in films about end-of-life decision making.
He and Dr. Kaplan are the creators of the PBS program Whose Death Is It Anyway?
04/05/2007
Staying in Charge is an invaluable asset to anyone's library, whether beginning to contemplate their own eventual care or having to consider another's care. The topic of advanced and end-of-life care is not one we naturally gravitate toward for pleasure reading, but this is a positive, easily read book that can be accessed as needed. There are ample resources for help and information. Better to be aware, than rudely surprised.
E.A. Davis, author, Waiting for Wings: Accompanying a Parent to the Edge of Life
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