How We Die
Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
New York : Vintage Books, 1995.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xviii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
0679742441
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HEALTH End of Life Nul | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1994.
Includes index.
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 1994.
Includes index.
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 1994.