Reviews for Final Acts: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make

The average rating for Final Acts: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-05-25 00:00:00 Wayne Troy Good collection of essays about end of life care. The first half is by people who have had to care of loved ones in their final years, the second half of the book is more by people who make medical decisions about or are somehow advocates around end of life care. The last essay pissed me off though, cause the guy was saying that the debate around legalizing assisted suicide for the sick and elderly wouldn't exist if we just made hospice and hospital stays better. Bullshit! Like if people were given comfortable, caring places to hang out and die they still wouldn't want some sort of choice whether or not they can die on their own terms. The fact that assisted suicide is illegal is counter-intuitive to me.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-05 00:00:00 David Sorensen Harrowing book, troubling, but how could the story of one woman's experience with domestic violence not be? What's especially compelling about this book is how the author frames each chapter around one woman's experience and then integrates other research to help make sense of Bernice's life. In this way, I think it might work very well in the undergraduate classroom to bring to life all the complicated parts of domestic violence and give students human, but also empirical, insight into this issue.