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Author Nuland, Sherwin B.

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

Imprint New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1994.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  616.078 NULAND    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  616.078 NULAND c.2  Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  MCN 616.078 NUL    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  616.078 NULAND    DUE 11-12-21 Billed
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  616.07 NUL    DUE 02-04-12 Assumed Lost
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  616.078 NUL    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  616.078 NUL    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  616.078 NULAND    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  616.07 NUL    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  616.078 NUL c.2  Check Shelf

Edition 1st ed.
Description xviii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
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.
Summary "There is a vast literature on death and dying, but there are few reliable accounts of the ways in which we die. The intimate account of how various diseases take away life, offered in How We Die, is not meant to prompt horror or terror but to demythologize the process of dying to help us rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita." "Though the avenues of death - AIDS, cancer, heart attack, Alzheimer's, accident, and stroke - are common, each of us will die in a way different from any that has gone before. Each one of death's diverse appearances is as distinctive as that singular face we each show during our lives. Behind each death is a story." "In How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland, a surgeon and teacher of medicine, tells some stories of dying that reveal not only why someone dies but how. He offers a portrait of the experience of dying that makes clear the choices that can be made to allow each of us his or her own death."--Jacket.
Subject Death.
Death.
Death. (OCoLC)fst00888613
Sterven.
Tod.
Indexed Term Death
Added Title Reflections on life's final chapter
ISBN 0679414614
9780679414612
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