Provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death.

D. Micah Hester is Associate Director of the Division of Medical Humanities and Associate Professor of Medical Humanities and Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas Medical System, as well as clinical ethicist at Arkansas Children's Hospital. The author and editor of eight books and numerous journal articles, he coordinates the Pediatric Ethics Consortium as well as the Pediatric Ethics Affinity Group of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.

1. Crito revised; 2. Blindness, narrative, and meaning: moral living; 3. Radical experience and tragic duty: moral dying; 4. Needing assistance to die well: PAS and beyond; 5. Experiencing lost voices: dying without capacity; 6. Dying young: what interests do children have?; 7. Caring for patients: cure, palliation, comfort, and aid in the process of dying.