With The End In Mind : Dying, Death And Wisdom In An Age Of Denial

EBook 2018

A palliative care physician draws on stories from her own practice to explain how to enable a gentle and peaceful death and how modern medicine, augmented by traditional palliative approaches, can restore dignity, humanity, and meaning to the end of life.

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9780316510691

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Dying, death, and wisdom in an age of denial

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Electronic reproduction. New York Little, Brown and Company 2018 Available via World Wide Web

Contents:

Patterns. Unpromising beginnings ; French resistance ; Tiny dancer ; Wrecking ball ; Last waltz ; Pause for thought: Patterns
My way. That is the question ; Never let me go ; Hat ; Take my breath away ; Pause for thought: My way
Naming death. Second-hand news ; Slipping through my fingers ; Talking about the unmentionable ; The sound of silence ; Every breath you take (I'll be watching you) ; Beauty and the Beast ; Pause for thought: Naming death
Looking beyond the now. In the kitchen at parties ; Please release me--A side ; Please release me--B side ; Travel plans ; With love from me to you ; Pause for thought: Looking beyond the now
Legacy. Something unpredictable ; The year of the cat ; Post-mortem ; Needles and pins ; Lullaby ; Pause for thought: Legacy
Transcendence. Musical differences ; Deep dreams ; De profundis ; Perfect day ; "Only the good die young" ; Pause for thought: Transcendence
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