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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes,...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the sublime (the faint sound of Mozart as you take your last breath) to the ridiculous (lessons on how to close the sagging jaw of a corpse), Tisdale leads the reader through the peaks and troughs of death with a calm, wise, and humorous hand. Advice for Future Corpses is more than a how-to manual or a spiritual bible: it is a graceful compilation of honest and intimate anecdotes based on the deaths Tisdale has witnessed in her work and life,...
Author
Series
Harold Fry novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn’t seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and...
Author
Physical Desc
i, 420 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just as Jennifer was present at the beginning of life in her midwife books, here she documents her experiences as a nurse and ward sister treating patients who were nearing the end of their lives. Interpersed with these stories from Jennifer's post-midwife career are the histories of her patients, discussions on the circumstances in which we die, and a stripping-back of the myths and taboos surrounding death. We also find out more about Jennifer,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
520 pages
Language
English
Description
When it comes to death, we are all beginners. What we could use is a clear-eyed, big-hearted friend to hold our hand and walk us through not just the practical decisions we’ll have to make in the coming months and years, but also how to engage with loved ones and face our fears. That is why a veteran hospice & palliative medicine doctor and an experienced caregiver and journalist teamed up to guide you as well as your friends and family through...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1997, c1974
Physical Desc
xii, 177 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
On Death and Dying is one of the most important books ever written on the subject and is still considered the bench-mark in the care of the dying. Life magazine called it "a profound lesson for the living." This companion volume consists of the questions that are most frequently asked of Dr. Kübler-Ross and her answers. She discusses accepting the end of life, suicide, terminal illness, euthanasia, how to tell a patient he or she is critically...
Author
Physical Desc
155 p.;
Language
English
Description
Accompanying the Dying describes the human skill and art of companioning someone through dying. There is a wide gap in this knowing (of how to accompany the dying), which is why this book is timely and needed at this juncture of the "death positive" movement. The book is meant to empower us as a society to understand how to die well in this modern age. Deanna describes the newly emerging role of the "end-of-life doula," which is a nonmedical role...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care -- to become an ICU physician -- and imagined herself swooping in to rescue patients from the brink of death. But then during her first code she found herself cracking the ribs of a patient so old and frail it was unimaginable he would ever come back to life. She began to question her choice. Extreme Measures charts Zitter's journey from wanting...
Author
Publisher
Viva Editions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xxii, 223 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There's a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care-nearly 44 percent of all deaths-and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take...
Author
Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
295 pages
Language
English
Description
A transformative and compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted dying who began her career in the maternity ward and now helps patients who are suffering explore and then fulfill their end of life choices.
Dr. Stefanie Green has been forging new paths in the field of medical assistance in dying since 2016. In her landmark memoir, Dr. Green reveals the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, how the process works, what...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edward Warren, twenty-four, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's organs....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today’s modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about death and dying started by Dr. Sherwin Nuland and Atul Gawande. Dr. Warraich takes a broader look at how we die today, from the cellular level up to the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this visionary memoir, based on a groundbreaking New York Times Magazine story, award-winning journalist Katy Butler ponders her parents’ desires for “Good Deaths” and the forces within medicine that stood in the way. Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her vigorous and self-reliant parents when the call came: a crippling stroke had left her proud seventy-nine-year-old father unable to fasten a belt or complete a sentence. Tragedy...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xix, 204 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zen teacher Joan Halifax has been helping both the dying and their caregivers to face death with courage and compassion for three decades. Here, Joan offers the fruits of her work, providing comfort, inspiration, and practical skills for all those who are in the process of dying or who are charged with a dying person's care. Her teaching, based on Buddhist principles, emphasizes that we have the ability to open up to and rely on our inner strength,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
323 pages (large print) : illustration ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine: keeping patients alive at all costs. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions tethered to machines and tubes, even though research indicates that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones. The question 'How do you want to live?' must be posed to the seriously ill because they deserve to choose. If doctors explain options -- including the choice to forego countless...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amy and Brian's world was changed forever with his diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's. Forced to confront the daily frustrations and realities of the disease and its impact on their lives and marriage, Brian resolved not to let it dictate his life and instead asked himself: what makes life meaningful, and how do I want to live the rest of mine? His decision led them to learn about Dignitas and to fly to Zurich for a peaceful ending of Brian's life"--...
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