More and more Americans are looking for better ways to face the emotional and practical realities of serious illness and dying. They are seeking ways to balance high-tech medical interventions with comfort and compassionate care, and to achieve a sense of dignity and meaning at the end of life. Finding Our Way: Living With Dying in America presents the real-life experiences of Americans who have courageously struggled to find their personal answers to some of life's toughest questions. Their intimate stories take us into the hospital and nursing home, through the struggles of caregiving, talking about serious illness, medical decision making, arranging a funeral, and living with loss. We hear the conversations that helped them find their way through these challenging situations. 

Finding Our Way is a short course on death and dying in America today. These topics can't be avoided by any of us. The practical advice, resources, and personal stories in Finding Our Way can teach how to approach these most significant life events with the same kind of planning and emotional preparedness we strive for in the rest of our lives. We are finding better ways to live with dying in America.

LIVING WITH DYING IN AMERICA
There are signs of both great longing and great promise ahead. This is America’s other budding crisis in health care – while research for cures of life-threatening diseases barrels ahead, more and more Americans are also looking for better ways to die. As the end draws near, Americans are saying, give us the time, information and guidance to move to the final reprieve of palliative and hospice care. Allow us in our last days to live smart, to embrace the life we have left and to make our deaths our own.

Story about Barbara 
When 53-year-old Barbara Wein was diagnosed with ovarian cancer three years ago, she faced what has become the end-of-life dilemma for most critically ill Americans.
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