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How We Die
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter | Sherwin B Nuland
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. Reprint. 150,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.
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ONH
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One downfall of city living: my view is a parking lot 🙄

“Dignity is something, said John, that the survivors snatch— it is in their minds that it exists, if it exists at all. Those of us left behind search for dignity in order not to think ill of ourselves.”

A few good morsels about death, but I feel like it could have said more. Enjoyed his personal accounts of cases that moved him— very empathetic and readily able to reflect.

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Bookishnights
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This book was intersecting defiantly heard of people who loved it. although I lost interest in the parts where the author went deep into how we die. I preferred the parts where he talked about his personal experiences.

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Anyone know where I can get a free audio book version of this ASAP 😂. School reading. Can‘t find it on overdrive #audiobook #help

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I arrived at this after having it recommended by Paul Kalanithi in When Breath Becomes Air.

Dr Nuland takes a clinical AND humane tour through heart disease, Alzheimer's, AIDS and cancer explaining how each draws us to our necessary ends.

A remarkable effort that is simultaneously dis- and com-passionate. Maybe I've just been feeling morbid for the two years since my father died or maybe death is not the scary monster we sometimes believe it.

ReadingEnvy I have added this to my to-read list. My dad (who has stage 4 cancer) and I had a conversation about how we didn't know what dying from cancer really meant, exactly. We have mostly seen people die of old age. 8y
[DELETED] 3216391035 Interesting...I usually don't read books like this but might have to check this one out. 8y
GuiltyFeat @ReadingEnvy Sending love and kind wishes to you and your dad. 8y
ONH Reading Dr. Kalanithi‘s memoir right now. Just got to his piece on Dr. Nuland‘s book. Stacked! 5y
Vivlio_Gnosi When Breath Becomes Air is exactly where I first heard about this book. 1y
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