Reflections of Life's Final Chapter, New Edition
Sherwin B. Nuland
overview
New Edition : With a new chapter addressing contemporary issues in end-of-life care A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland's How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. This new edition includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the current state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus. It also discusses how we can take control of our own final days and those of our loved ones. Shewin Nuland's masterful How We Die is even more relevant than when it was first published.
contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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
Epilogue
