THE LEAVING LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE - Full Version (with text)

 

A Guide to Exploring Your Ideas and Feelings about Leaving Life

 

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Prelude: Choosing not to think about or plan for D&D

 

1: Your general ideas about leaving life and where they came from

Personality characteristics that can affect your approach to D&D

     How you make decisions when there isn't enough information

The sources of your ideas and feelings about leaving life

2: Your reactions when others leave life

 

3: How you have been dealing with D&D up until now

Planning for D&D

What you have thought about leaving life in the past

 

4: Very Old Age

Factors affecting your adjustment to Very Old Age

Predicting your adaptation to Very Old Age

 

5: Quality of life and suffering

Assessing your Quality of Life (QOL)

Assessing your level of suffering

How you respond to the suffering of others

 

6: The effects of your leaving on others

Your value to your family and society

The reactions of people around you to your leaving

 

7: Other factors affecting the decision to leave life: your ideas about the afterlife, decreasing fear of leaving, offering incentives to leave

After leaving life, what?

Leaving life without fear?

Manipulating the number of people who voluntarily leave life with payoffs and costs

 

8: An example of social and political consequences: the “slippery slope”

 

9: The decision to leave

 

10: Things to do before voluntarily or involuntarily leaving life

 

11: What to do after going through the LLQ

Your contribution

Your reactions to the LLQ

 

12:Moving away from D&D: Returning to life as usual

 

APPENDICES

     The Very Old Persons Bill of Rights
      Web Sites
     Virtual Reality in the Last Stages of Life

Book Table of Contents

Other D&D Questionnaires

Additional Measures of Quality of Life

 

  

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