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Mannix, Kathryn.
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Terminal care.
Palliative treatment.
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Mannix, Kathryn.
Death.
Terminal care.
Palliative treatment.
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With the end in mind : dying, death and wisdom in an age of denial / Kathryn Mannix.
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Mannix, Kathryn.
Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group, 2018.
Call #:
362
.175
M284w
Subjects
Death.
Terminal care.
Palliative treatment.
ISBN:
9780316504485 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Dying, death, and wisdom in an age of denial.
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
viii, 341 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Patterns. Unpromising beginnings ; French resistance ; Tiny dancer ; Wrecking ball ; Last waltz ; Pause for thought: Patterns -- My way. That is the question ; Never let me go ; Hat ; Take my breath away ; Pause for thought: My way -- 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 -- Looking beyond the now. In the kitchen at parties ; Please release me--A side ; Please release me--B side ; Travel plans ; With love from me to you ; Pause for thought: Looking beyond the now -- Legacy. Something unpredictable ; The year of the cat ; Post-mortem ; Needles and pins ; Lullaby ; Pause for thought: Legacy -- Transcendence. Musical differences ; Deep dreams ; De profundis ; Perfect day ; "Only the good die young" ; Pause for thought: Transcendence -- Last words.
Summary:
Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar and gentle process, death has come to be something from which we shy away, preferring to fight it desperately than to accept its inevitability. Palliative care has a long tradition in Britain, where Dr. Kathryn Mannix has practiced it for 30 years. She shares beautifully crafted stories from a lifetime of caring for the dying. With insightful meditations on life, death, and the space between them, she describes the possibility of meeting death gently, with forethought and preparation, and shows the unexpected beauty, dignity, and profound humanity of life coming to an end.
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