Finding Frances

By Janice M. Van Dyck
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Published: Feb. 24, 2011
Words: 75,446 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780982614013

Short description

Finding Frances is a powerful exploration of medical ethics and family loyalties in the 21st century. Fiction based on true events. "How does each person want to live? How would they want to die? Van Dyck brings these questions smoothly to the surface without ever pushing an agenda or setting up arguments." (The Washington Times)

Extended description

Is it our responsibility to keep people alive or to help them die a good death?

Frances Baldwin is ready to die. Prepared to deny further medical care that might save her, she asks her son to help her bring closure to a well-lived life. Can William, a philosophical med-school dropout, honor his mother without tearing himself and his family apart? To help her die, he must face off against the medical community and the system that is trying to keep her alive regardless of the quality of life she will lead. To lose her, he must find her and find himself.

Finding Frances is a powerful exploration of a family's uncharted emotional terrain set against the larger cultural and ethical issues of death in the 21st century. It's a gently, upbeat, and off-beat exploration of the love beneath a family's defenses and contrary positions. Based on true events, it is an inspirational story about a woman who died as she lived: with dignity, humor and occasional flashes of brilliance.

"It is a.. (Read more) Is it our responsibility to keep people alive or to help them die a good death?

Frances Baldwin is ready to die. Prepared to deny further medical care that might save her, she asks her son to help her bring closure to a well-lived life. Can William, a philosophical med-school dropout, honor his mother without tearing himself and his family apart? To help her die, he must face off against the medical community and the system that is trying to keep her alive regardless of the quality of life she will lead. To lose her, he must find her and find himself.

Finding Frances is a powerful exploration of a family's uncharted emotional terrain set against the larger cultural and ethical issues of death in the 21st century. It's a gently, upbeat, and off-beat exploration of the love beneath a family's defenses and contrary positions. Based on true events, it is an inspirational story about a woman who died as she lived: with dignity, humor and occasional flashes of brilliance.

"It is a real joy to read this novel. The journey on this planet has a beginning and an end...We have to ease the burdens of the final goodbye and relearn the naturalness of dying..." (Lofty Basta, MD, Author of "Graceful Exit" and "Life and Death on Your Own Terms")
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family drama, inspirational, hospice, death and dying, aging parents, medical drama, medical ethics, faith question, advance care directive, contemporary issues

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