Editor's Note: Frank at the piano
Foreword: New approaches to end-of-life care / Karen Wolk Feinstein
Introduction: Last days / Francine Prose
To morning / Anne Jacobson
On bearing witness / Laurie Foos
Insights in the rearview mirror / Phyllis Galley Westover
The general / Larry D. Cripe
Wake-up call / Catherine A. Musemeche
Simple gifts / Beecher Grogan
Living and dying well / Therese Zink
A better place / Valerie Seiling Jacobs
Waiting (to go home) / Howard Mansfield
Mr. Stone / Diana Flescher
Life and death and 911 / Caroline Burau
Snowing in Krakow / Marcin Chwistek
Do you remember? / Patricia McCarthy
The business of grief / Joe Primo
This is blood / Sandell Morse
A figurative death / Carol Cooley
Whose failure was it? / Jonathan Weinkle
The measure of time / Amanda J. Redig
The deep truth / Eugenia Smith
The resurrection of Wonder Woman / Eleanor Vincent
Twelve breaths a minute / Gulchin A. Ergun.