Das Leben vom Ende her denken

This book takes a look at our dying and how today's palliative medicine can accompany each and every individual in this process. Medical-practical perspectives are taken, but also ethical, cultural-scientific and personal views are presented. It is about our fears as affected persons as well as relatives, about the preservation of dignity and self-determination at the end of life, about hopes and, using the example of the Ruhr area, about the questions that our cultural background raises in this stage of life. This should make it possible to find one's own viewpoints on existence and life, to consider existing perspectives and to find one's own approach to writing a living will, to establishing a power of attorney for care or to palliative care in general.

With contributions by
Theodor Baars, Ferya Banaz-Yaşar, Christina Berndt, Anja Bröker, Ali Canbay, Marti Faber, Markus Gabriel, Ulrich Harbecke, Bodo Hombach, Stefan Huster, Birgit Jaspers, Marianne Kloke, Michael Krons, Reinhold Messner, Eckhard Nagel, Jeanne Nicklas-Faust, Franz-Josef Overbeck, Marta Przyborek, Lukas Radbruch, Traugott Roser, Ulla Schmidt, Ute Schwarzwald, Nicole Selbach, Thomas Sitte und Christiane Woopen.