"I will set my sights (and planning) on going gently into that good night," David G. Allan writes. What, exactly, does a 'good death' look like? A 'good death' checklistA recent review of studies from around the world, published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, outlined the factors that contribute to a "good death" according to patients, family members and health care providers. "You can make it possible to have a good death by talking about it sometime before." "Our ultimate goal, after all," Gawande wrote, "is not a good death, but a good life to the very end."

Source: CNN August 16, 2016 11:48 UTC