I really liked her narrative style, which was sufficiently descriptive but always compassionate and with a touch of humour. She makes the case that we should be neither ashamed nor embarrassed to talk about dying and death but that bringing our fears into the open is a healing process in itself. It takes an anecdotal story approach to representing a variety of death, dying and grieving situations and conversations that many might find potentially helpful.

This book is written beautifully by a fellow flawed and compassionate human who happens to be a trained, experienced medical professional - this is the key balance that brings this book life and meaning.Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). But there are also things that irritated me and make me question elements of the narrative, which of course make me question it all. Told through a series of beautifully crafted stories taken from nearly four decades of clinical practice, her book answers the most intimate questions about the process of dying with touching honesty and humanity. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. She wants us to think about what dying and death mean for others and for ourselves and take the fear and recoil out of the subject.

I could have done with more exploration of what death means to people of faith for the foundation of the Hospice movement was distinctly Christian. Overall, this book wasn't to my taste, but some readers will engage with the approach to this topic. we are privileged to accompany people through moments of enormous meaning and power; moments to be remembered and retold as family legends and, if we get the care right, to reassure and encourage future generations as they face these great events themselves.Even though it is one thing common to all life, it has reached the point where it is seen now as a taboo, something that we deliberately choose to ignore or rarely talk about when pushed. One of her patients was a mother who still feels that she needs to keep up her glamorous appearance, but pouring herself into tight jeans was not helping with the pain; a few subtle changes helped immensely and allowed to be comfortable in the final days. Man, watching your loved one suffering fucks you up for life, far more than "simple" fact of his of her death. Starting in cancer care and changing career to become a pioneer of the new discipline of palliative medicine, she has worked in teams in hospices, hospitals and in patients own homes to deliver palliative care, optimising quality of life even as death is approaching. Mostly a reflection on her years as a palliative care medicine doctor, Mannix shares with readers what the process of death looks like, what is valuable to people at the end, and why honest conversations about the one true inevitable event in our lives yields so much less fear and such richer endings.

I found this book through a caring and compassionate recommendation at just the right time - and I pass it on in the same spirit. Although anecdotal, this was presented by Mannix as the usual method in The Netherlands: doctors brainwashing patients into believing that their lives became too hard to bear and that there are better options than living and suffering to the painful end. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. I have referred to that one a number of times when talking to people who were in fear of their death, and I can see how this one would be even more comforting. It’s almost impossible to answer, yet people ask as though it’s a calculation of change from a pound.

Mannix's sincere loving care and compassion radiate from the pages of this beautifully written account of her daily life, professional training, clinical practice and most of all, fragile patients. Si bien se aprende uno que otro concepto sobre cómo es el proceso de muerte en personas con cuidados paliativos, en los que se puede aplicar uno que otro consejo, parece más un libro de “mini cuentos”.