How we die: reflections on life's final chapter

✍ Scribed by Sherwin B. Nuland

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

New Edition: With a new chapter addressing contemporary issues in end-of-life careA 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.Shewin Nuland's masterful How We Die is even more relevant than when it was first published.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Praise for book......Page 3
Author bio......Page 5
Books by author......Page 6
Half-Title......Page 7
Title page......Page 9
Copyright......Page 10
Dedication......Page 11
Epigraph......Page 13
Contents......Page 15
Acknowledgments......Page 17
Introduction......Page 21
I. The Strangled Heart......Page 29
II. A Valentine—and How It Fails......Page 46
III. Three Score and Ten......Page 69
IV. Doors to Death of the Aged......Page 90
V. Alzheimer's Disease......Page 115
VI. Murder and Serenity......Page 144
VII. Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia......Page 166
VIII. A Story of AIDS......Page 189
IX. The Life of Virus and the Death of a Man......Page 206
X. The Malevolence of Cancer......Page 228
XI. Hope and the Cancer Patient......Page 248
XII. The Lessons Learned......Page 268
Epilogue......Page 289
Index......Page 297
Back Cover......Page 308