With the end in mind
Subtitle: dying, death and wisdom in an age of denial
By: Kathryn Mannix
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780316504485
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Death; Terminal care
Other titles: Dying, death, and wisdom in an age of denial
Description: A palliative care physician draws on stories from her own practice to explain how to enable a gentle and peaceful death and how modern medicine, augmented by traditional palliative approaches, can restore dignity, humanity, and meaning to the end of life.
Table of contents: title: Patterns. Unpromising beginnings ; French resistance ; Tiny dancer ; Wrecking ball ; Last waltz ; Pause for thought: Patterns; title: My way. That is the question ; Never let me go ; Hat ; Take my breath away ; Pause for thought: My way; title: Naming death. Second-hand news ; Slipping through my fingers ; Talking about the unmentionable ; The sound of silence ; Every breath you take (I'll be watching you) ; Beauty and the Beast ; Pause for thought: Naming death; title: Looking beyond the now. In the kitchen at parties ; Please release me; title: A side ; Please release me; title: B side ; Travel plans ; With love from me to you ; Pause for thought: Looking beyond the now; title: Legacy. Something unpredictable ; The year of the cat ; Post-mortem ; Needles and pins ; Lullaby ; Pause for thought: Legacy; title: Transcendence. Musical differences ; Deep dreams ; De profundis ; Perfect day ; "Only the good die young" ; Pause for thought: Transcendence; title: Last words.