How to Get the Death You Want ─ A Practical and Moral Guide

This is a comprehensive manual with for anybody reaching the end of life, and for their caring friends, relatives, advocates, and caretakers. The author, an Episcopal Priest, describes in detail the formidable challenges faced by those who wish to avoid months or years of painful treatment after they no longer have any hope of recovering any reasonable quality of life.

Abraham is acive with numerous end-of-life organizations, most notably the Final Exit Network (FEN), serving as leader of the Arizona chapter. In the book he covers the practical and moral issues involved with making one's choices about medical care and minimizing the suffering and pain. He emphasizes that everybody must make their own decisions, consistent with their religious or moral beliefs, but that those who wish to determine the timing of thier own deaths wit a pain-free method (ranging from stopping eating to the quicker method with helium) they have a right to do so.

The book carries strong endorsements from a number of well-known authorities on death, dying, grief, and mourning, including Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, the autor of numerous best-selling books on death and grieving, and Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society and author of Final Exit.