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How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, New Edition (National Book Award Winner)
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The definitive resource on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.
Even more relevant than when it was first published, this edition addresses contemporary issues in end-of-life care and includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus. How We Die also discusses how we can take control of our own final days and those of our loved ones.
"Nuland's work acknowledges, with unmatched clarity, the harsh realities of how life departs... There is compassion, and often wisdom, in every page." --San Francisco Examiner
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Jan 15th, 1995
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.96in - 6.60in - 0.72in - 0.51lb
- EAN: 9780679742449
- Categories: • Death, Grief, Bereavement• General
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What people are saying
author • podcaster • wildly unreasonable •‘Head On Fire’ is available everywhere now! He/Him • agent @KateDavids @Arc_Literary
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Former: New Haven Alderman, Bard Conservatory, Yale music faculty. Current: Citizen, pianist, occasional essayist on music, politics and culture.
@rangoon78rpm @AOC Somehow appropriate that Nuland’s father Sherwin is best known for his book “How We Die.” It seems his daughter is doing a lot to provide an answer.
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Praise for this book
"Eloquent and uncommonly moving... Nuland writes with unsentimental passion." --Time
"Engrossing... We are in the hands of a remarkable portraitist whose cultivated thought.... quietly and informatively instructs and advises us on a subject of universal concern." --The New York Times Book Review
"Nuland's work acknowledges, with unmatched clarity, the harsh realities of how life departs... There is compassion, and often wisdom, in every page." --San Francisco Examiner
"Nuland combines the clinical eye of a physician with... emotional and philosophical reflectiveness." --Newsday
What people are saying
author • podcaster • wildly unreasonable •‘Head On Fire’ is available everywhere now! He/Him • agent @KateDavids @Arc_Literary
Oh oh oh! I know this one! @CarriePoppyYES according to Dr. Sherwin Nuland in his book How We Die, nobody ever dies of “old age”. There is always something specific written as cause - heart failure, etc. But never simply “old age”. Finally my very specific research is useful! https://t.co/YKzqu6zU7B
Former: New Haven Alderman, Bard Conservatory, Yale music faculty. Current: Citizen, pianist, occasional essayist on music, politics and culture.
@rangoon78rpm @AOC Somehow appropriate that Nuland’s father Sherwin is best known for his book “How We Die.” It seems his daughter is doing a lot to provide an answer.