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Final Acts [3.234.253.152] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 14:32 GMT) RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, AND LONDON Final Acts Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make EDITED BY NAN BAUER-MAGLIN AND DONNA PERRY VVVVVVVVVVV VVVVVVVVVVV LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Final acts : death, dying, and the choices we make / edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Donna Perry. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–8135–4627–8 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978–0–8135–4628–5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Death. I. Maglin, Nan Bauer II. Perry, Donna Marie, 1946– HQ1073.F557 2009 306.9—dc22 2009000773 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Ruthann Robson’s “Notes on My Dying” was originally published in Creative Nonfiction 18, 8 (2001). June Bingham’s “Live Better or Live Longer?” appeared as an op-ed article in The Riverdale Press, July 5, 2007, 1, A9. Stephen P. Kiernan’s “The Transformation of Death in America” combines material from throughout his book Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System. Copyright © 2006 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC. Marge Piercy’s “End of days” appeared in Rattle 14, no. 2. Copyright © 2006 Marge Piercy, Box 1473, Wellfleet, MA 02667. Used by permission of Wallace Literary Agency, Inc. This collection copyright © 2010 by Rutgers, The State University Individual chapters copyright © 2010 in the names of their authors All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854–8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Visit our Web site: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America ...