num_pages: 278
description: A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland's How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. This new edition includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the current state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus. It also discusses how we can take control of our own final days and those of our loved ones.Shewin Nuland's masterful How We Die is even more relevant than when it was first published.
language: English
title: How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
titlecomplete: How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
genres: Self Help, Death, Philosophy, Science, Health, Medicine, Psychology, Medical, Nonfiction, Spirituality
ratings_count: 8511
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Vintage