How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, Partea 4,Ediția 969Alfred A. Knopf, 1994 - 278 pagini There is a vast literature on death and dying, but there are few reliable accounts of the ways in which we die. The intimate account of how various diseases take away life, offered in How We Die, is not meant to prompt horror or terror but to demythologize the process of dying to help us rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita. Though the avenues of death - AIDS, cancer, heart attack, Alzheimer's, accident, and stroke - are common, each of us will die in a way different from any that has gone before. Each one of death's diverse appearances is as distinctive as that singular face we each show during our lives. Behind each death is a story. In How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland, a surgeon and teacher of medicine, tells some stories of dying that reveal not only why someone dies but how. He offers a portrait of the experience of dying that makes clear the choices that can be made to allow each of us his or her own death. |
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... understand what it is like for medical students and dying patients to befriend each other and share one another's ... understanding of another's percep- tions and there is also unquenchable faith . In Sarah's tradition : " Though I speak ...
... understand what it is like for medical students and dying patients to befriend each other and share one another's ... understanding of another's percep- tions and there is also unquenchable faith . In Sarah's tradition : " Though I speak ...
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Reflections on Life's Final Chapter Sherwin B. Nuland. specific diseases is less to understand than to beard them . Con- frontation , somehow , is safer once we have set a label on a thing , as if the very process makes the vicious beast ...
Reflections on Life's Final Chapter Sherwin B. Nuland. specific diseases is less to understand than to beard them . Con- frontation , somehow , is safer once we have set a label on a thing , as if the very process makes the vicious beast ...
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Reflections on Life's Final Chapter Sherwin B. Nuland. Each family needs help to understand the viciousness of the at ... understanding ears will listen and understanding hearts will share - these are the realiza- tions that can lift away ...
Reflections on Life's Final Chapter Sherwin B. Nuland. Each family needs help to understand the viciousness of the at ... understanding ears will listen and understanding hearts will share - these are the realiza- tions that can lift away ...
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A Valentineand How It Fails | 20 |
Three Score and Ten | 43 |
Doors to Death of the Aged | 64 |
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