Research Catalog

Title

Saying goodbye to Daniel : when death is the best choice / Juliet Cassuto Rothman.

Author

Rothman, Juliet Cassuto, 1942-

Publication

New York : Continuum, 1995.

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Holdings

Details

Description

180 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Saying Goodbye to Daniel is the heart-rending account of the final two and a half months in the life of Daniel Rothman, told with beautiful simplicity by his mother, Juliet. As a social worker and philosopher specializing in terminal-care issues, Juliet had for many years been preparing herself unwittingly for the hardest choice a parent can ever offer a child." "Saying Goodbye to Daniel is many things. It is the harrowing story of how one family faced the ongoing tragedy of months of hospitalization and acute medical care. It is the moving case study of a young man's death with dignity. It is also a compassionate guidebook that includes: an update on how the family coped with the loss of their son and brother, emotionally and spiritually, two years after his death; Juliet's reflections on terminating-care decisions based on her professional and practical experience; and a list of resources dealing with spinal cord injury, loss of a child, grief and bereavement, and advance directives and patient's rights."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Rothman, Daniel Maurice, 1971-1992 > Health
• Quadriplegics > United States > Biography
• Medical ethics
• Do-not-resuscitate orders
• Life support systems (Critical care)
• Euthanasia
• Euthanasia, Passive
• Quadriplegia
• Right to Die

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Accident -- 2. Hospital -- 3. My Son Is a Quad -- 4. In the Hours of Darkness -- 5. Settling In -- 6. Of Heart Lines and Phone Lines -- 7. My ICU Family -- 8. Losing Hope -- 9. Finding Hope, and Losing It Again -- 10. I Will Get My Son Out of This Hospital Alive -- 11. Westward Bound -- 12. Entering Paradise -- 13. Sunshine on Our Faces -- 14. Gathering Clouds -- 15. I Am Leaving Home the Mother of Three, and Will Return the Mother of Two -- 16. Thirty Percent Is Not Much Chance -- 17. Thirty Percent Is Too Much Chance -- 18. To Tell the Truth -- 19. Hardest Choice to Offer -- 20. Saying Goodbye -- Epilogue I: Our Lives Today -- Epilogue II: Echoes of Immortality -- Epilogue III: Philosophical Reflections -- Postscript: A Letter From Daniel's Doctor.

ISBN

0826408575 (hard : alk. paper) :

LCCN

^^^95032338^

OCLC

• 32778648
• SCSB-12028257

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library