Good Law | Bad Law

A cruel death.   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Barbara Mancini, to discuss death and dying, advanced directives and end-of-life care, as well as Barbara’s own tragic tale about the failings of our medical and legal systems.   In 2013, Barbara and her family lost her father, Joseph. An independent, hardworking, World War II veteran, Joseph Yourshaw had made his end-of-life wishes clear to his family and his physicians – he did not want any lifesaving measures and, under no circumstances, did he want to go to the hospital. In her new book, Barbara tells the harrowing story both she, and her father suffered, in the last days of his life and the year after. Barbara details how things did not go according to the well-documented and detailed plans Joseph and his family had set forth for the end of his life and how she found herself being arrested for allegedly aiding him in his supposed suicide attempt.   Ultimately, the charg