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A palliative care veteran’s unflinching manifesto on death, dying, and grief, and what it truly means to die wellMost of us hope for a long life and a quick death, ideally one we never see coming. Stephen Jenkinson spent decades managing palliative care programs and directing children’s grief centers, and has seen firsthand what that wish… Přejít na celý popis

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A palliative care veteran’s unflinching manifesto on death, dying, and grief, and what it truly means to die wellMost of us hope for a long life and a quick death, ideally one we never see coming. Stephen Jenkinson spent decades managing palliative care programs and directing children’s grief centers, and has seen firsthand what that wish costs: in a culture that treats death as a medical failure, the dying are sedated with hope, measured by “quality of life,” and urged to fight for more time rather than living fully with the time they have.Die Wise is not a gentle balm or an end-of-life planning checklist. It offers no quick solutions or five-step guides to death and loss. It is a provocation and an invitation: an argument that dying well is not a private preference but a moral, political, and spiritual responsibility, one we owe to those who came before us and those who will follow. Drawing on bedside stories, his own close encounters with mortality, and ancestral ways of honoring the dead, Jenkinson asks into the essential questions that most books on death and grief avoid. Inside, you’ll find:A searching critique of how modern medicine manages death instead of making room for itA hard look at hope, “quality of life,” and the push for assisted dying as symptoms of a death-phobic cultureGrief reframed as a vital skill and a way of loving, not a problem to be fixedWhy hiding death from children, families, and ourselves leaves us uninitiated and unmooredFor caregivers, death workers, the grieving, and anyone reckoning with their own mortality, Die Wise offers the chance to meet death awake, with care, awe, and responsibility.

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Nakladatel
North Atlantic Books, U.S.
Rozměr
228 x 154 x 30
jazyk
angličtina
Vazba
měkká vazba
Hmotnost
510 g
isbn
978-1-58394-973-3
Počet stran
416
datum vydání
17.03.2015
ean
9781583949733

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