{"id":1173,"date":"2017-09-06T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/2017\/09\/jane-brodys-guide-to-the-great-beyond-a-practical-primer-to-help-you-and-your-loved-ones-prepare-medically-legally-and-emotionally-for-the-end-of-life\/"},"modified":"2018-07-02T07:42:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T11:42:50","slug":"jane-brodys-guide-to-the-great-beyond-a-practical-primer-to-help-you-and-your-loved-ones-prepare-medically-legally-and-emotionally-for-the-end-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/jane-brodys-guide-to-the-great-beyond-a-practical-primer-to-help-you-and-your-loved-ones-prepare-medically-legally-and-emotionally-for-the-end-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Brody\u2019s Guide to the Great Beyond: A Practical Primer to Help You and Your Loved Ones Prepare Medically, Legally, and Emotionally for the End of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"byline\">By&nbsp;<span class=\"\">Jane Brody<\/span>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Random House, 2009<\/em>&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No matter what your age or health, this book by <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Jane Brody is for you. With her frank, thorough approach to a subject we usually avoid, Brody helps us prepare for our own and our loved ones\u2019 deaths. As she points out, planning for the end of life is a gift to your future self\u2014and to your family\u2014because it gives you more control over how you will die, and it spares them the anguish of not knowing what you would have wanted. This book offers practical insight on a wide range of topics: what kind of living will is least likely to be misinterpreted by doctors, how to avoid burnout when caring for someone seriously ill, stages and types of grief, what to say\u2014and not to say\u2014to a dying loved one or a bereaved friend, why some doctors abandon terminally ill patients. It also explores myths about organ donation. Humorous cartoons help lighten a serious topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Brody helps us prepare for our own and our loved ones\u2019 deaths. As she points out, planning for the end of life is a gift to your future self\u2014and to your family\u2014because it gives you more control over how you will die.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/jane-brodys-guide-to-the-great-beyond-a-practical-primer-to-help-you-and-your-loved-ones-prepare-medically-legally-and-emotionally-for-the-end-of-life\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jane Brody\u2019s Guide to the Great Beyond: A Practical Primer to Help You and Your Loved Ones Prepare Medically, Legally, and Emotionally for the End of Life<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,62,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides-to-aging-well","category-insights-from-bold-thinkers","category-lifes-endings-nonfiction"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4759,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/4759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}