YOUR LIFE, YOUR DEATH, YOUR CHOICE

When polled, 80% of individuals want to die at home. Only about 20% do. 90% say that it is important to create medical directives for their health care and convey their wishes to their doctor.  Only 20% do.  It is very possible for your life to be extended against your will and/or for you to experience much suffering at the end of your life if you have not completed Advanced Medical Directives.  This interactive book offers you the information and tools needed to create a legal document enabling those who care for you to honor your wishes.  It also provides you with many insightful and revealing examples using links to videos, newscasts, podcasts, and articles, some of which illustrate how your wishes can get side tracked.  Suggestions and strategies for having conversations with your medical proxy (the one you legally designate to make decisions for you), your doctor, and those most important to you are presented throughout. It's your life, your death, your choice.  Have your voice!


Mark Peterson, Ed.D. graduated from Boston University in 1966.  He went on to teach graduate level courses in counseling, group dynamics, research design, and related subjects at the University of Maryland, the University of Pittsburgh, and Antioch New England University until 1978.  He then opened a private psychology consulting practice providing services to individuals,, families, groups, and organizations until retiring in 1998.  He has been recognized by the New Hampshire Psychological Association for "Distinguished Life Time Contributions to the Profession and the Public", and by the American Psychological Association as the "Outstanding State Psychologist in the Nation" for his contributions in the mid 1990s.  He has held many leadership positions both in psychology and in the communities in which he has lived.  He was a certified psychologist in New Hampshire and held a Diplomate awarded by the American Board of Professional Psychology and is a Fellow in the APA.