How We Die
Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, New Edition (National Book Award Winner)

On the back of "How We Die" Doris Lessing writes it's a must read for anyone over 50. I say anyone over 35. Because you might still have time then to internalise all the dying lessons Dr. Nuland has to teach, and you're past those forever twenties. We've got three score and ten years and most of tha......more

I felt compelled to reread HOW WE DIE, starting with the chapters on Cancer, after my wife passed away from an aggressive form of breast cancer. Doctor Nuland is right on when he talks about how the specialists, for whom a disease such as cancer becomes a great riddle to solve, somehow withdraw from......more

Rất khó khăn để đọc xong được cuốn sách này. Vì đọc thấy sợ; sợ bị già đi, sợ bệnh Alzheimer, sợ đột quỵ, sợ mất quá nhiều máu, sợ bị ung thư. Sợ chết. Nhưng hơn cả sự hù doạ không mong muốn, Nuland khiến suy nghĩ của mình về cái chết trở nên thay đổi. “Chân giá trị lớn lao nhất được tìm thấy trong......more

If you are alive, and might someday die, or know anyone who is alive and might someday die, this might be one of those books you have to read. It takes the piss out of heroics, and science, and the Dignified Death; it harshly regards the coldness of medical personnel dedicated to solving what the auth......more

My Dad is ninety-three. I bought this book to share with him some time ago as we have been grappling with the Inevitably of Death for some time now. He is relatively healthy and he has always counted on living at least until ninety-six, the age his father died. But this past year his sharp mind has......more