How we die : : Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Self-Help / Death & Grief / Nuland, Sherwin B
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1994.
Includes index.
The strangled heart -- A valentine--and how it fails -- Three score and ten -- Doors to death of the aged -- Alzheimer's disease -- Murder and serenity -- Accidents, suicide, and euthanasia -- A story of AIDS -- The life of a virus and the death of a man -- The malevolence of cancer -- Hope and the cancer patient -- The lessons learned.
Presents a meditation and portrait of the experience of dying that elucidates the decisions that can be made to allow each person an understanding of death, as well as his or her own choice of death.

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Well written submitted by crp on August 9, 2019, 9:07pm Extremely well written; I appreciated this book for its thoroughness in addressing a difficult topic. Compared to others (including Being Mortal), it’s really quite stunning.