Anthony Back, MD, Oncologist and Palliative Care physician, University of Washington Medical School. I wish all my patients would read this book.” “Like a wise friend explaining exactly what you need to know about getting what you need from your medical care, including all the insider stuff your doctors and nurses don’t always want to say. Lucy Kalanithi, MD, widow of Paul Kalanithi, and editor of When Breath Becomes Air “A book to devour, discuss, dog-ear, and revisit … Wise counsel for the final decades of our ‘wild and precious’ lives.” Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed and Natural Causes “Katy Butler shows how, and I am profoundly grateful.” Ira Byock, MD, author of Dying Well and The Best Care Possible Simple and practical, but the impact is profound.” “The best guidebook I know of for navigating the later stages of life. It’s the definitive update for our modern age.
This down-to-earth manual for living, aging, and dying with comfort, meaning, and even joy is inspired by the medieval death manual Ars Moriendi, or the Art of Dying. You will learn how to successfully age in place, to deepen your passions and community connections, to marshall a “tribe” to support you or a seriously ill friend, and to seize the power to make any death a sacred rite of passage rather than a medical event. This handbook of step by step preparations-practical, communal, physical, and spiritual-will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it months, years, or decades. With groundbreaking insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker Katy Butler shows how to thrive (even if coping with a chronic medical condition), get the best from our fragmented health system, and make your own peaceful, well-supported “good death” more likely. The Art of Dying Well will help you live well as possible for as long as possible and adapt successfully to change. The “best guide” out there to maintaining a high quality of life-from active living to final breath-by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door. For autographed copies order from Book Passage:
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