Lawrence Abrams is a retired high school principal in New York City where he worked for several decades to reform public education and became an advocate for the small school movement. Suddenly he was thrust, with little preparation, into America's end-of-life system. Never, in his wildest dreams, did he think he would author a book, but the writing poured out of him as a method to understand and control the hard decisions he and his adult daughter would have to make to keep their loved one safe from harm.