Dr. Jeff Spiess has spent his medical career helping dying people, first as an oncologist and then as a hospice physician. He has observed, through extensive clinical experience and conversations with the dying and their loved ones, the added burden of distress that comes from the American tendency to avoid facing death as inevitable, and he has learned what the dying need to do in order to have the best possible death. To share this information, he wrote an indispensable handbook called Dying with Ease: A Compassionate Guide for Making Wiser End-of-Life Decision