| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| The Strangled Heart | p. 3 | |
| A Valentine - and How It Fails | p. 20 | |
| Three Score and Ten | p. 43 | |
| Doors to Death of the Aged | p. 64 | |
| Alzheimer's Disease | p. 89 | |
| Murder and Serenity | p. 118 | |
| Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia | p. 140 | |
| A Story of AIDS | p. 163 | |
| The Life of a Virus and The Death of a Man | p. 180 | |
| The Malevolence of Cancer | p. 202 | |
| Hope and the Cancer Patient | p. 222 | |
| The Lessons Learned | p. 242 | |
| Epilogue | p. 263 | |
| Index | p. 271 |