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    How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland

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    • Pub. Date: January 1993
    • 304pp
    • Sales Rank: 23,057

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      • Pub. Date: January 1993
      • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
      • Format: Paperback, 304pp
      • Sales Rank: 23,057

      Synopsis

      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

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      Describes the mechanisms of cancer/ heart attack/stroke/AIDS/Alzheimer's/etc.

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      The 1994 NBA nonfiction winner, Yale physician Nuland's study of the clinical, biological and emotional details of dying was a 14-week PW bestseller. (Jan.)

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      Biography

      A clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, Sherwin B. Nuland is the author of numerous books including How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, which won the National Book Award; Lost in America: A Journey with My Father; Maimonides; and Leonardo da Vinci. He lives in Hamden, Connecticut.


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      Needed to help a loved one dieby Anonymous

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      May 23, 2004: This book helps demystify the actual processes of leaving this life. Nuland writes beautifully of technical matters and about the experience of leaving life. I use this in a class about end-of-life issues to reintroduce students to the experience of participating in others' deaths. We 'hospitalize' death so much now that this book can take the place of losing neighbors and family members in a closer-knit society.

      Stark Realityby Anonymous

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      January 14, 2004: I finaly had the courage to read this book having lost two close relatives to cancer in the last 2 years. It is not comforting, but realistic I felt. Having just turned 50 myself, I did not recognize any of the symtoms of deterioating age described for my age group 'yet', but did notice changes I have not noticed before about my 72 year old mother. It definately needs to be read with an ' open' mind.