How we die : reflections on life's final chapter / Sherwin B. Nuland
- Bib ID:
- 103230
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Nuland, Sherwin B
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1994
- xviii, 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0679414614
- Summary:
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There is a vast literature on death and dying, but there are few reliable accounts of the ways in which we die. The intimate account of how various diseases take away life, offered in How We Die, is not meant to prompt horror or terror but to demythologize the process of dying to help us rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita. Though the avenues of death - AIDS, cancer, heart attack, Alzheimer's, accident, and stroke - are common, each of us will die in a way different from any that has gone before. Each one of death's diverse appearances is as distinctive as that singular face we each show during our lives. Behind each death is a story. In How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland, a surgeon and teacher of medicine, tells some stories of dying that reveal not only why someone dies but how. He offers a portrait of the experience of dying that makes clear the choices that can be made to allow each of us his or her own death.
- Full contents:
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- I. The Strangled Heart
- II. A Valentine - and How It Fails
- III. Three Score and Ten
- IV. Doors to Death of the Aged
- V. Alzheimer's Disease
- VI. Murder and Serenity
- VII. Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia
- VIII. A Story of AIDS
- IX. The Life of a Virus and The Death of a Man
- X. The Malevolence of Cancer
- XI. Hope and the Cancer Patient
- XII. The Lessons Learned.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Death
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1994
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