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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 each show during our lives. Behind each death is a story. In How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland, a surgeon and teacher of medicine, tells some stories of dying that reveal not only why someone dies but how. He offers a portrait of the experience of dying that makes clear the choices that can be made to allow each of us his or her own death.… (mehr)
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To my brothers, Harvey Nuland and Vittorio Ferrero
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Everyone wants to know the details of dying, though few are willing to say so.
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In charity or love there is an understanding of another's perceptions and there is also unqunchable faith. (p. xii)
That day would surely have been a lot easier for me, and its memory less painful, had I but known that not only my own grandmother but indeed everyone become littler with death--when the human spirit departs, it takes with it the vital stuffing of life. (pp. 62-63)
Whether the result of wear. tear, and exhaustion of resources or whether genetically programmed, all life has a finite span and each species has its own particular longevity. (p. 84)
As a confirmed skeptic, I am bound by the conviction that we must not only question all things but be willing to believe that all things are possible. (p. 138)
Nature is being kind without knowing it, as nature can be cruel without knowing it. (p. 193)
In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society. (p. 208)
Mine is not the first voice to suggest that as patients, as families, and even as doctors, we need to find hope in other ways, more realistic ways than in the pursuit of elusive and danger-filled cures. (p. 233)
The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. (p. 242)
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So live, that when thy summons comes to join -- The innumerable caravan, which moves -- To that mysterious realm, where each shall take -- His chamber in the silent halls of death, -- Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, -- Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed -- By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, -- Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch -- About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. -- --
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 each show during our lives. Behind each death is a story. In How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland, a surgeon and teacher of medicine, tells some stories of dying that reveal not only why someone dies but how. He offers a portrait of the experience of dying that makes clear the choices that can be made to allow each of us his or her own death.
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