In-Class Activity 2/22 – WRT205 Spring 2016

I am interested in how end-of-life care is viewed by family members. Once their loved one is gone are they happy with how they were taken care of? Was it hospice care or in a hospital or both? What factors lead them to decide if it was a “good” death or “bad” death?
Search Terms: end-of-life care, hospice care, public health, good death, bad death
Here is an article titled Family Perspectives on Aggressive Cancer Care Near the End of Life. It was published in Boston, MA in the Journal of the American Medical Association and has multiple authors.
The authors use many testimonials where they interviewed a close friend of family member of the deceased patient about their experiences. This has a few different purposes depending on what was said in the interview. This is an example of both illustrating and contextualizing. If you compile all of the results you get statistics on end-of-life care, but if you look at it individually and use certain stories the person’s experience is being illustrated to the reader.