How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter, New Edition

Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity. "It's impossible to read How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James Gleick

Author: Sherwin B. Nuland

Publisher: Vintage

Publication Date: January 15, 1995

Number of Pages: 278 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0679742441

ISBN-13: 9780679742449