The Parallel Deathcare Library · An Anarchist Death Project Field Guide
You may know exactly which medical treatments you want, which you refuse, and who you trust to speak for you when you cannot. You may have written it all down, signed an advance directive, and placed copies in the right hands. And still, when an ambulance arrives, those instructions may not be enough.
Medical Orders at the End of Life is a 140-page practical guide to medical authority, consent, treatment refusal, and the limits of advance directives, written through an anarchist lens with the legal, medical, and practical realities firmly in view.
Perhaps one of the most important guides in the Anarchist Death Project, it explains the differences between advance directives, DNR orders, POLST, MOLST, POST, MOST, and other medical orders.
What does each document actually accomplish?
Who can authorize it? Will emergency responders recognize it?
What happens when instructions are unavailable, disputed, or contradicted?
The book examines resuscitation, life-sustaining treatment, emergency intervention, and the different laws and medical protocols governing these decisions across the United States and its territories. It also addresses how to obtain, complete, update, and distribute the appropriate documents so that they can be found and used when needed.
Throughout, the guide considers the particular realities of anarchist communities, including people caring for one another outside conventional institutions.
What happens when someone calls 911?
How do medical orders operate when emergency services enter a home or communal space?
What can friends, caregivers, and chosen communities do beforehand to understand their options and protect someone's expressed wishes?
These questions are approached practically, without romanticizing independence from medical systems or treating institutional procedures as unquestionable authority. With jurisdiction-specific information, official resources, and working guidance, Medical Orders at the End of Life is intended to help people understand the documents, recognize their limitations, and make informed decisions about their own medical care.
Medical Orders at the End of Life is part of the Parallel Deathcare Library, a growing collection of practical anarchist guides to deathcare, bodily autonomy, burial, and end-of-life planning.
The Anarchist Death Project grew out of How to Bury an Anarchist, the remarkable book published by Bacchus Editions that opened the way for this expanding collection of research, legal resources, planning documents, and practical guides.
Every copy of How to Bury an Anarchist comes with a Skeleton Key, granting access to the Anarchist Death Project's private Reading Room, where the Parallel Deathcare Library and its growing collection of resources are available to read, download, and share.
Already curious about the Project? You can also contact Bacchus Editions directly to request an access code. No book purchase is necessary. The information circulates freely. Bacchus Editions produces carefully made physical editions for those who want beautiful, durable books to keep, use, share, and pass along.
Published by: Bacchus Editions
Series: Parallel Deathcare Library
Format: Perfect-bound paperback
Length: 140 pages
Language: English
The Parallel Deathcare Library · An Anarchist Death Project Field Guide
You may know exactly which medical treatments you want, which you refuse, and who you trust to speak for you when you cannot. You may have written it all down, signed an advance directive, and placed copies in the right hands. And still, when an ambulance arrives, those instructions may not be enough.
Medical Orders at the End of Life is a 140-page practical guide to medical authority, consent, treatment refusal, and the limits of advance directives, written through an anarchist lens with the legal, medical, and practical realities firmly in view.
Perhaps one of the most important guides in the Anarchist Death Project, it explains the differences between advance directives, DNR orders, POLST, MOLST, POST, MOST, and other medical orders.
What does each document actually accomplish?
Who can authorize it? Will emergency responders recognize it?
What happens when instructions are unavailable, disputed, or contradicted?
The book examines resuscitation, life-sustaining treatment, emergency intervention, and the different laws and medical protocols governing these decisions across the United States and its territories. It also addresses how to obtain, complete, update, and distribute the appropriate documents so that they can be found and used when needed.
Throughout, the guide considers the particular realities of anarchist communities, including people caring for one another outside conventional institutions.
What happens when someone calls 911?
How do medical orders operate when emergency services enter a home or communal space?
What can friends, caregivers, and chosen communities do beforehand to understand their options and protect someone's expressed wishes?
These questions are approached practically, without romanticizing independence from medical systems or treating institutional procedures as unquestionable authority. With jurisdiction-specific information, official resources, and working guidance, Medical Orders at the End of Life is intended to help people understand the documents, recognize their limitations, and make informed decisions about their own medical care.
Medical Orders at the End of Life is part of the Parallel Deathcare Library, a growing collection of practical anarchist guides to deathcare, bodily autonomy, burial, and end-of-life planning.
The Anarchist Death Project grew out of How to Bury an Anarchist, the remarkable book published by Bacchus Editions that opened the way for this expanding collection of research, legal resources, planning documents, and practical guides.
Every copy of How to Bury an Anarchist comes with a Skeleton Key, granting access to the Anarchist Death Project's private Reading Room, where the Parallel Deathcare Library and its growing collection of resources are available to read, download, and share.
Already curious about the Project? You can also contact Bacchus Editions directly to request an access code. No book purchase is necessary. The information circulates freely. Bacchus Editions produces carefully made physical editions for those who want beautiful, durable books to keep, use, share, and pass along.
Published by: Bacchus Editions
Series: Parallel Deathcare Library
Format: Perfect-bound paperback
Length: 140 pages
Language: English
