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
xviii, 278 pages ; 20 cm
9780606325561, 9780679742449, 9780679414612, 0606325565, 0679742441, 0679414614
58734052
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
Includes index
Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1994