Sallie Tisdale's books include Talk Dirty to Me, Stepping Westward and Women of the Way. She has written for the New Yorker, Harper's, Antioch Review, Conjunctions, Threepenny Review and Tricycle, among other journals. She has received a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship, the James Phelan Literary Award, and she was a Dorothy and Arthur Shoenfeldt Distinguished Writer of the Year.

This book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live.

• 1: Dangerous Situation 2: Resistance 3: A Good Death 4: Communication 5: Last Months 6: Where? 7: Last Weeks 8: Last Days 9: That Moment 10: Bodies 11: Grieving 12: Joy I: Appendix 1: Preparing a Death Plan II: Appendix 2: Advance Directives III: Appendix 3: Organ and Tissue Donation IV: Appendix 4: Assisted Death V: UK Resources VI: Acknowledgments

Sallie Tisdale's books include Talk Dirty to Me, Stepping Westward and Women of the Way. She has written for the New Yorker, Harper's, Antioch Review, Conjunctions, Threepenny Review and Tricycle, among other journals. She has received a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship, the James Phelan Literary Award, and she was a Dorothy and Arthur Shoenfeldt Distinguished Writer of the Year.

This book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live.

• 1: Dangerous Situation 2: Resistance 3: A Good Death 4: Communication 5: Last Months 6: Where? 7: Last Weeks 8: Last Days 9: That Moment 10: Bodies 11: Grieving 12: Joy I: Appendix 1: Preparing a Death Plan II: Appendix 2: Advance Directives III: Appendix 3: Organ and Tissue Donation IV: Appendix 4: Assisted Death V: UK Resources VI: Acknowledgments