Editor's Note : Frank at the piano Foreword : New approaches to end-of-life care / Karen Wolk Feinstein Introduction : Last days / Francine Prose To morning / Anne Jacobson On bearing witness / Laurie Foos Insights in the rearview mirror / Phyllis Galley Westover The general / Larry D. Cripe Yellow taxi / Eve Joseph Wake-up call / Catherine A. Musemeche Simple gifts / Beecher Grogan Living and dying well / Therese Zink A better place / Valerie Seiling Jacobs Waiting (to go home) / Howard Mansfield Mr. Stone / Diana Flescher Rules / Maria Meindl Life and death and 911 / Caroline Burau Snowing in Krakow / Marcin Chwistek Do you remember? / Patricia McCarthy The business of grief / Joe Primo This is blood / Sandell Morse A figurative death / Carol Cooley Whose failure was it? / Jonathan Weinkle The measure of time / Amanda J. Redig The deep truth / Eugenia Smith The resurrection of Wonder Woman / Eleanor Vincent Twelve breaths a minute / Gulchin A. Ergun