How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

Name: How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
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ISBN: 9780679742449

By: Sherwin B. Nuland

Random House Inc / 1995 / Paperback

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Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland, a distinguished surgeon, explores how we shall die. Through particular stories of dying - of patients, and of his own family - he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity.

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Title: How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
By: Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 278
Vendor: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 1995

Dimensions: 5 1/4 X 8 X 3/4 (inches)
Weight: 14 ounces
ISBN: 0679742441
ISBN-13: 9780679742449
Stock No: WW42441

Publisher's Description

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive resource on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.

Even more relevant than when it was first published, this edition addresses contemporary issues in end-of-life care and includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus. How We Die also discusses how we can take control of our own final days and those of our loved ones.

"Nuland's work acknowledges, with unmatched clarity, the harsh realities of how life departs… There is compassion, and often wisdom, in every page." —San Francisco Examiner

Author Bio

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SHERWIN B. NULAND, MD, was Clinical Professor of Surgery at Yale University until his retirement in 2009, though he continues to teach Biomedical Ethics and Medical History to Yale undergraduates, and serve the university in various capacities. He won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Book Critics Circle Award when this book was initially published. In hardcover and paperback, How We Die was on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of thirty-four weeks, and has been translated into twenty-nine languages. Dr. Nuland and his family live in Connecticut.

Editorial Reviews

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"Eloquent and uncommonly moving… Nuland writes with unsentimental passion." —Time

"Engrossing… We are in the hands of a remarkable portraitist whose cultivated thought…. quietly and informatively instructs and advises us on a subject of universal concern." —The New York Times Book Review

"Nuland's work acknowledges, with unmatched clarity, the harsh realities of how life departs… There is compassion, and often wisdom, in every page." —San Francisco Examiner

"Nuland combines the clinical eye of a physician with… emotional and philosophical reflectiveness." —Newsday