With the end in mind : dying, death and wisdom in an age of denial /

Mannix, Kathryn,

With the end in mind : dying, death and wisdom in an age of denial / Kathryn Mannix. - viii, 341 pages : illustrations, charts ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

A palliative care physician draws on stories from her own practice to explain how to enable a gentle and peaceful death and how modern medicine, augmented by traditional palliative approaches, can restore dignity, humanity, and meaning to the end of life.

9780316504478 (paperback)

2017951362


Death.
Terminal care.
Hospice care.
Death--Psychological aspects.
Palliative treatment.