Time to Go

Download or read book Time to Go written by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1995-01-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical technology has radically changed the way we die; it is now possible to sustain life long after consciousness and intelligence are gone. Although Congress recently passed a law intended to encourage people to create an "advance directive" - a document instructing health care providers what to do in situations where an individual is unable to communicate his or her wishes - surveys show that few people have done so. Time to Go is intended to increase awareness and knowledge about advance directives, and beyond that, to facilitate discussion about the many complicated issues surrounding death and dying today.