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Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death

By : Katy Butler

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Book Synopsis :

?A thoroughly researched and compelling mix of personal narrative and hard-nosed reporting that captures just how flawed care at the end of life has become? (Abraham Verghese, The New York Times Book Review).This bestselling memoir?hailed a ?triumph? by The New York Times?ponders the ?Good Death? and the forces within medicine that stand in its way. Award-winning journalist Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her aging parents when the call came: her beloved seventy-nine-year-old father had suffered a crippling stroke. Katy and her mother joined the more than 28 million Americans who are shepherding loved ones through their final declines. Doctors outfitted her father with a pacemaker, which kept his heart going while doing nothing to prevent a slide into dementia, near-blindness, and misery. When he said, ?I?m living too long,? mother and daughter faced wrenching moral questions. Where is the line between saving a life and prolonging a dying? When do you say to a doctor,

Book Detail :

Author : Katy Butler

Pages : 352 pages

Publisher : Scribner

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ISBN-10 : 1451641982

ISBN-13 : 9781451641981

 

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