With the end in mind : dying, death and wisdom in an age of denial / Kathryn Mannix.
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TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 341 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316504485
- 0316504483
- Dying, death, and wisdom in an age of denial
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying.
Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar, peaceful, and gentle -- if sorrowful -- transition, death has come to be something from which we shield our eyes, as we prefer to fight desperately against it rather than accept its inevitability.
Dr. Kathryn Mannix has studied and practiced palliative care for thirty years. In With the End in Mind , she shares beautifully crafted stories from a lifetime of caring for the dying, and makes a compelling case for the therapeutic power of approaching death not with trepidation, but with openness, clarity, and understanding.
Weaving the details of her own experiences as a caregiver through stories of her patients, their families, and their distinctive lives, Dr. Mannix reacquaints us with the universal, but deeply personal, process of dying. With insightful meditations on life, death, and the space between them, With the End in Mind describes the possibility of meeting death gently, with forethought and preparation, and shows the unexpected beauty, dignity, and profound humanity of life coming to an end.
Patterns. Unpromising beginnings ; French resistance ; Tiny dancer ; Wrecking ball ; Last waltz ; Pause for thought: Patterns -- My way. That is the question ; Never let me go ; Hat ; Take my breath away ; Pause for thought: My way -- Naming death. Second-hand news ; Slipping through my fingers ; Talking about the unmentionable ; The sound of silence ; Every breath you take (I'll be watching you) ; Beauty and the Beast ; Pause for thought: Naming death -- Looking beyond the now. In the kitchen at parties ; Please release me--A side ; Please release me--B side ; Travel plans ; With love from me to you ; Pause for thought: Looking beyond the now -- Legacy. Something unpredictable ; The year of the cat ; Post-mortem ; Needles and pins ; Lullaby ; Pause for thought: Legacy -- Transcendence. Musical differences ; Deep dreams ; De profundis ; Perfect day ; "Only the good die young" ; Pause for thought: Transcendence -- Last words.
A palliative care physician draws on stories from her own practice to explain how to enable a gentle and peaceful death and how modern medicine, augmented by traditional palliative approaches, can restore dignity, humanity, and meaning to the end of life.