Good Deaths and Bad Deaths: A Guide to a Graceful Ending

by Susan Watkins

This is not the first book about the struggle to die. But it is the first book about the whole journey, from start to finish. This is a guide to help families plan a graceful death. And make no mistake, it takes planning to avoid last days full of paperwork and machinery.
There are books about grieving, books about caretaking, books about hospice, and books about coping with conditions that have no cure. These books often start too late to provide true comfort. Demographer Susan Watkins wanted to cover every step of the process. Good Deaths and Bad Deaths shows how the elderly can go from alive and healthy, to dying gracefully at home with their family.

100 pages, Hardcover

Published September 30, 2020

About the author

Susan Watkins is Professor in the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities and Director of the Centre for Culture and the Arts. She is an expert in contemporary women's fiction and feminist theory. Susan's main research interests are in the field of contemporary women's fiction and feminist theory.