Resources abound on end-of-life issues

Local organizations can provide valuable information on medical health care directives and medical power of attorney.
Also, there are many excellent books on Jewish medical ethics that help to frame salient issues and provide helpful guidance.
    These include:
  • "Matters of Life and Death, A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics" by Elliott N. Dorff (Jewish Publication Society, $38.95, hardcover)
  • "A Time to Prepare," edited by Rabbi Richard Address (UAHC Press, $6.95 paperback)
  • "The Measure of Our Days, New Beginnings at Life's End" by Jerome Groopman, MD (Viking, $23.95, hardcover)
  • "Embracing Life and Death, A Jewish Guide to Palliative Care," by Rabbis Daniel S. Brenner, Tsvi Blanchard, Bradley Hirschfield and Joseph J. Fins, MD, (CLAL, $18 paperback)
  • "The Jewish Book of Living and Dying" (Jason Aronson Inc., $30 hardcover) by Lewis D. Solomon
  • "'And You Shall Live By Them,' Contemporary Jewish Approaches to Medical Ethics" (Mirkow Publications, $34.95 paperback) by Louis Flancbaum.


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