About the Author

Michael Kearney, MD, has spent over twenty-five years working as a physician in end-of-life care. He trained and worked at St. Christopher's Hospice in London with Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement, as medical director of Our Lady's Hospice in Dublin, and at McGill University in Montreal. He is currently a medical director of palliative care service at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and an associate medical director at Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care, also in Santa Barbara. He also acts as medical director to the Anam Cara Project for Compassionate Companionship in Life and Death in Bend, Oregon.