ABSTRACT
In the late 20th century America, the role played in their lives by financial and tax considerations is pervasive as well as oppressive. The frenetic activity generated by year-end tax planning is intensified many times over when dealing with life-end financial and tax planning. The old chestnut that describes the golden years as those in which the gold he have managed to accumulate during their working years is given to doctors tells only half the story. In the absence of careful planning before death, the balance goes to the government. Lerner made the following observation about watching her husband die: Death by illness, like birth, is possible only with the participation of the individual. This consists both of a release letting go an active advance goal directedness. The patient must at one time or another seeks death as a release, as sleep, as the end of pain before physical destruction can end life.
