How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0679414614
ISBN 13
9780679414612
Category
End of Life
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Publication Year
1994
Publisher
Pages
278
Description
Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity. "It's impossible to read How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James GleickFrom the Trade Paperback edition. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
2
