How we die : reflections on life's final chapter /

How we die : reflections on life's final chapter /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Nuland, Sherwin B.
Edition:	1st Vintage books ed.
Imprint:	New York : Vintage Books, 1995.
Description:	xviii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Death. Death.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8514616

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ISBN:	9781439505182 1439505187 9780679742449 0679742441
Notes:	Includes index. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1994.
Summary:	Presents a meditation and portrait of the experience of dying that elucidates the decisions that can be made to allow each person an understanding of death, as well as his or her own choice of death.

Table of Contents:

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.