How Long to Read Patient-Directed Dying

How Long Does it Take to Read Patient-Directed Dying?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 27 minutes to read Patient-Directed Dying by Thomas Preston

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Author Tom Preston, MD, and his terminally ill patients and their families often face the controversial predicament of how to die when suffering has been medically extended. Through their conversations, they demonstrate how dying is a process, how physicians alter when and how we die, and why "natural" death is a misnomer after medical interventions prolong the process. Their cases also explain why patients-not physicians or others-should be able to make their own decisions about when and how to die. Dr. Preston gives compelling reasons as to why aid-in-dying is not suicide when used by terminally ill patients, and why physicians who help them die are not assisting suicide. He shows us the ethical aspects of aid-in-dying and how they are consistent with other current and legal medical practices that help patients end their suffering. He debunks claims that legalized aid-in-dying would be abused for financial, social, or political reasons. Dr. Preston also shows how outdated cultural attitudes impede society's understanding of how we die, why many physicians withdraw from their dying patients, and how the sanctity-of-life principle has become distorted to obstruct physician assisted deaths. Patient-Directed Dying is a powerful manifesto calling for mercy and reason in helping terminally ill patients die a peaceful death.

How long is Patient-Directed Dying?

Patient-Directed Dying by Thomas Preston is 204 pages long, and a total of 51,816 words.

This makes it 69% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Patient-Directed Dying Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 43 minutes to read Patient-Directed Dying aloud.

What Reading Level is Patient-Directed Dying?

Patient-Directed Dying is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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