How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter. Sherwin B. Nuland, Author, Nuland, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $24 (p) ISBN New Edition: With a new chapter addressing contemporary issues in end-of-life careA runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland’s. Sherwin Nuland on the Art of Dying and How Our Mortality Confers Meaning Upon Our Lives. “To lament that we shall not be alive a hundred.
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This is a pretty stark contrast to the 19th century, where it was the norm for people to drop dead like flies, often in the comforts of their own homes. Then the book began to hold my attention as it developed into an exploration of how people deal with dy Sherwin Nuland, MD, was a well known and successful surgeon at Yale Medical Center for many years.
Most people today still want their long-term dying process to be dignified, but Nuland points out that this often isn’t the case, relating a memory where a man with Alzheimer’s had to be cleaned of his own feces the year he died. Aunque en algunos casos se cree que el contagio se ha producido por un solo contacto sexual, normalmente hace falta una dosis muy alta de virus o repetidos contactos.
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How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
Lists with This Book. It would be interesting to read an update knowing all that we do now about these same diseases, despite the fact that several seem to remain quite mysterious.
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How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter
Although Nuland’s intentions were to “demythologize the process of dying,” it is quite difficult to walk away from this book leaving death’s grandeur as a mere image of the past. She is dying of the natural cycle of life – not just of human life, but of all life.
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Just wasn’t ready to read it all right now. Instead, I am putting it on my bookshelf.
Jul 15, Jim Gleason rated it it was amazing Shelves: I was entranced by the technical details and moved to tears by some of the author’s personal stories, but his philosophical musings seemed a bit repetitive after a while.
It helped us all live with Mum’s condition, has since helped through the passing of other close people and I hope will help us in turn to understand what is likely to happen.
Oct 03, Abby rated it really liked it Shelves: Nuland has to teach, and you’re past those forever twenties. He is against the heroic medicine that tortures the dying when is nothing to do. No hay que temer ninguna de las cuatro fuentes de microbios tan temidas por los aprensivos: Return to Book Page. But this past year his sharp mind has begun to notice his body lagging somewhat. Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc. Feb 04, Sarah rated it liked it Shelves: It has brought some of the wisdom I was seeking and I am happy to have bought it.
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We all must die, and death will most likely be awful, and painful, and we will very likely be surrounded by strangers. 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: I only know it could have been better and it could have been worse. After all, while he trained in the era when the doctor and family could collude to keep the true nature of an illness hidden from a patient, he also was part of a generation of surgeons who saw incredible progress in his field.
Our expectations namely that people we can always be cured, that hope is lost if the disease is found to be incurable, or that their is a ‘right’ way to go can affect how we view and thus react as friends, family, and doctors around those dying.