How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, New Edition (National Book Award Winner)

great book to read!

This delightful man is so very interesting in how he compiles words thoughts ideas brilliance intelligence together. The language is quite understandable, as I have just retired from a career in nursing. The most interesting, is how we come away with the concept that we must stop the death denying and death defying ways we have been so locked in to.

Me ha gustado como presenta la dura cuestión. Es muy constructivo.

This book helped me recognize my fathers illness for what it truly was I read it two months before he died, it has not been an easy process grieving for him but if I hadn't read this book before hand I would still be in denial of what I couldn't control. It helped me let go at the right moment. He died of Heart Failure an illness that he had most of his life but he made it past his 80's which is a blessing. It is not an easy book to read as it makes you face truths but in a very gentle way. My father had a drop in his oxygen count a month before he actually passed away and it is from reading this book I knew what was happening and I was able to prepare myself, it didn't make it easier but it did help me understand what was happening. Be brave and have courage when you read this book, death affects us all, if anything this book allows you to prepare and make the best use of your time, for yourself and for those around you with terminal illness.

The language is superb! Dr. Nuland writes about the scientific medical truths in such an artistic and beautiful language. I like the way he starts off a serious subject with such drama and fiction (so it seems); but then tapers it to the serious facts of life. He draws us from a fiction to nonfiction with interest and enthusiasm. He makes the facts of death so real and natural that it takes the fear of death out of us; it becomes quite acceptable. His language really is beautiful. The way death consumes each and every one of us, whether we are healthy or sick, is so fascinatingly put. He has explained how he saw his grandmother pass away; this has shed a lot of light on the facts about death for me. The analogy with which he described the cancer cell to young unruly adolescent has a touch of humor and at the same time describes the truth about the malignant cells. It is so beautifully written. For someone who is not a doctor or someone who is more a dreamer in the fiction world, this book (which is a nonfiction-medicine) is never boring from beginning to the end. He has caught my attention from the beginning to the end. His language captivated my attention; I have never read a nonfiction book with such enthusiasm and interest before. I am able to face the facts of death more logically now. This book was an excellent read. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to accept death as a natural phenomenon and to make peace with yourself and with your loved ones at the time of death.