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The way we die now / Seamus O'Mahoney.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Head Of Zeus 2016Description: xii, 292 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781784974268 (hbk.) :
  • 1784974269
  • 9781784974269
  • 018133245
  • 9781784974282
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.9 23
  • 306.9
LOC classification:
  • HQ1073
Summary: We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors, and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are unlikely to see even their family doctor in their final hours, robbed of their dignity and fed through a tube after a long series of excessive and hopeless medical interventions. This is the starting point of Seamus O'Mahoney's thoughtful, moving, and unforgettable book on the Western way of death.
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We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors, and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are unlikely to see even their family doctor in their final hours, robbed of their dignity and fed through a tube after a long series of excessive and hopeless medical interventions. This is the starting point of Seamus O'Mahoney's thoughtful, moving, and unforgettable book on the Western way of death.

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