Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying-of patients, and of his own family-he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS,
Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity. "It's impossible to read
How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland…
In his book "How We Die" Sherwin B. Nuland describes how the U.S. Government in its annual "Advance Report of Final
Mortality Statistics" neatly tabulates all the deaths by cause. And nowhere in the… This is a very easy read that gives basic background information, as well as personal accounts from the author's days as a practicing MD, on each of the diseases covered."How We Die" gives a rare…
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