How We Die
Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
by Sherwin B. Nuland · first published 1994
100% recommend
There is a vast literature on death and dying, but there are few reliable accounts of the ways in which we die. The intimate account of how various diseases take away life, offered in How We Die, is not meant to prompt horror or terror but to demythologize the process of dying to help us rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita. Though the avenues of death - AIDS, cancer, heart attack, Alzheimer's, accident, and stroke - are common, each of us will die in a way different from any that has gone before. Each one of death's diverse appearances is as distinctive as that singular face we
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For a book length treatment of this topic, see "How we Die", one of the most amazing books I've read. http://www.amazon.com/How-We-Die-Reflections-Chapter/dp/0679...
on “Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctor’s eyes” ↗…Paul Kalanithi tells the story of his dying. I found it very liberating to learn more about the process from a trauma expert. I'm also slowly making my way through a more medical book currently called How We Die that outlines the actual body processes of the ways we die. I cannot recommend it highly enough. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49286.How_We_Die
on “How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)” ↗