At the End of Life
What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?
The modern healthcare system has become proficient at staving off death with aggressive interventions. And yet, eventually everyone dies—and although most Americans say they would prefer to die peacefully at home, more than half of all deaths take place in hospitals or health care facilities. At the End of Life tackles this conundrum head on. These twenty-two compelling personal-medical narratives explore death, dying and palliative care, and reveal the inner workings of a system in which doctors, patients and their loved ones battle to hang on—and to let go.
Introduction by Francine Prose.
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Table of Contents
Editor’s Note: Frank at the Piano
Foreword: New Approaches to End-of-Life Care
Introduction: Last Days
To Morning
On Bearing Witness
Insights in the Rearview Mirror
The General
Yellow Taxi
Wake-Up Call
Simple Gifts
Living and Dying Well
A Better Place
Waiting (to Go Home)
Mr. Stone
Rules
Life and Death and 911
Snowing in Krakow
Do You Remember
The Business of Grief
Reconsidering our responsibilities to the dead . . . and to ourselvesThis Is Blood
A Figurative Death
The Measure of Time
The Deep Truth
The Resurrection of Wonder Woman
Twelve Breaths a Minute
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| Weight | 0.725 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 9 × 6 × 1 in |
