num_pages: 288
description: A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of lifefrom resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breathby the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heavens Door.The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories award-winning journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition) how to get the best from our health system and how to make your own good death more likely. This handbook of step by step preparationspractical communal physical and sometimes spiritualwill help you make the most of your remaining time be it decades years or months.Butler explains how to successfully age in place why to pick a younger doctor and how to have an honest conversation with her when not to call 911 and how to make your death a sacred rite of passage rather than a medical event.This down-to-earth manual for living aging and dying with meaning and even joy is based on Butlers own experience caring for aging parents as well as hundreds of interviews with people who have successfully navigated a fragmented health system and helped their loved ones have good deaths. It also draws on interviews with nationally recognized experts in family medicine palliative care geriatrics oncology hospice and other medical specialties. Inspired by the medieval death manual Ars Moriendi or the Art of Dying  T he Art of Dying Well is the definitive update for our modern age and illuminates the path to a better end of life.
language: English
title: The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
publisher: Scribner