Handbook For Mortals

The following online excerpts from the book Handbook for Mortals are available. For more information about the book, which you also may buy online, click here.

1.0 Living With Serious Illness

2.0 Enduring And Changing

3.0 Finding Meaning

4.0 Helping Family and Loved Ones

6.0 Talking With Your Doctor

8.0 Managing Other Symptoms

11.0 Forgoing Medical Treatment

11.1 Tube Feeding (Fluids and Food)

11.2 Decisions About Resuscitation (CPR)

11.3 Decisions About Ventilation

13.1 Coping With Events Near Death

13.2 Questions About Funerals

Adapted from The Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness, by Joanne Lynn and Joan Harrold, copyright by Joanne Lynn, used by permission of Oxford University Press.

1.0	Living With Serious Illness
2.0	Enduring And Changing
3.0	Finding Meaning
4.0	Helping Family and Loved Ones
6.0	Talking With Your Doctor
8.0	Managing Other Symptoms
11.0	Forgoing Medical Treatment
11.1	Tube Feeding (Fluids and Food)
11.2	Decisions About Resuscitation (CPR)
11.3	Decisions About Ventilation
13.1	Coping With Events Near Death
13.2	Questions About Funerals