UNIT 1. End-of-life decision making
Does depression make end-of-life decisions untrustworthy?
Do advance directives improve care for those unable to make decisions?
UNIT 2. Caregiver end-of-life decision making
Do dying persons without advocates get a difference quality of care?
Compassion fatigue : does burnout occur in all caregivers of dying patients?
UNIT 3. Treatment requests and decisions : pain and futility
Does a dying person with severe pain have a right to effective pain management?
Should pain be alleviated if it hastens death?
Does too much treatment result in an inhumane dying?
Are feeding tubes obligatory?
Does withholding or withdrawing futile treatment kill people?
UNIT 4. Assisted suicide
May a dying person hasten her death?
Can legal suicide really safeguard against abuse?
Is palliative sedation actually euthanasia in disguise?
UNIT 5. Determining definitions of death
Is brain death dead enough?
UNIT 6. Hospice, policy, and costs of dying
Is it better to die in hospice than hospitals?
Should eldercare at the end of life be subsidized?
UNIT 7. Dying and death as cultural performances
Is dying improved by belonging to a religious community rather than simply being a spiritual person?
Is dying made better by culturally competent end-of-life care?
Do funeral rituals help grief?