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How we die : reflections on life's final chapter / Sherwin B. Nuland.

by Nuland, Sherwin B.

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Vintage Books, 1995.

9780679742449 (pbk.)

xviii, 296 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published in hardcover: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

"With a new chapter addressing contemporary issues in end-of-life care"--cover.

Includes index.

The strangled heart -- A valentine--and how it fails -- Three score and ten -- Doors to death of the aged -- Alzheimer's disease -- Murder and serenity -- Accidents, suicide, and euthanasia -- A story of AIDS -- The life of a virus and the death of a man -- The malevolence of cancer -- Hope and the cancer patient -- The lessons learned -- Coda: 2010.

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.

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