How we die : reflections on life's final chapter

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Nuland, Sherwin B., 1930-2014 (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published New York : Vintage, 1995
Edition1st Vintage Books ed.
Subjects
smrt
umírání
tanatologie
death
dying
thanatology
monografie
monographs
ISBN0679742441 978-0-679-74244-9
Physical Descriptionxviii, 278 s. : il. ; 25 cm

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Table of 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

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