| 1. | Could the Doctors Be Wrong? Understanding and Coming to Terms with Bad News |
| 2. | Who Are All These People? Making Sense of the Medical System and Its Many Faces |
| 3. | What Treatments Are Available? Making Sense of Disease and Medical Interventions |
| 4. | What Can I Do About My Loved One’s Pain and Suffering? Addressing Symptoms and Difficulties |
| 5. | Where Will It Happen? Choosing the Right Place for Your Loved One |
| 6. | How Will It Happen? Dispelling Myths About the Final Days of Life |
| 7. | How Should I Be Feeling? Facing Your Feelings About Caring for and Losing a Loved One |
| 8. | What Should I Be Saying? Learning to Talk with Someone Who is Dying |
| 9. | What Should I Be Doing? Part I Attending to Practical Matters |
| 10. | What Should I Be Doing? Part II Attending to Matters of the Heart |
| 11. | What Is the Meaning of It All? Considering the Spiritual Aspects of Dying |
| 12. | Will I Ever “Get Over” Losing My Loved One? Discovering Life After Loss |