With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

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She makes a compelling case for the therapeutic power of approaching death not with trepidation but with openness, clarity and understanding. They say that the Victorians were happy to talk about death, but not sex, and now we’ve reversed that as no conversation about sex seems too much, and yet we can’t even bring ourselves to use words like died/dead/death, only passed or lost or late. You will meet Holly, who danced her last day away; Eric, the retired head teacher who, even with Motor Neurone Disease, gets things done; loving, tender-hearted Nelly and Joe, each living a lonely lie to save their beloved from distress; and Sylvie, 19, dying of leukaemia, sewing a cushion for her mum to hug by the fire after she has died. This book may well not be for everyone however it tackles very difficult subjects with great gentleness.

I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone, regardless of age, as an educational, moral, and preparatory text that will allow the reader to deal with their own death and those of loved ones more meaningfully and considerately. Some of the hardest cases are those that have one close loved one who are not sure how they will cope alone. Even with that, the stories were well written, easy to read, and believable, as were her commentaries. In this unprecedented book, palliative medicine pioneer Dr Kathryn Mannix explores the biggest taboo in our society and the only certainty we all share: death.

She is also aware of the lack of information about the process that is available to patients and their families.

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. At Bridge Books, we love getting to know our community and are always willing to chat and help point you towards resources you might find useful. Mainly though, to feel at as much ease as is possible as she comes to the end and what that end will likely look like - which I can share with her too. If you find Atul Gawande's Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End a worthy read, you should definitely look this one up.

We might not like the thought of ripping the rotting flesh from our loved one’s bones, but for some, burning a body is equally repugnant. Having qualified as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist in 1993, she started the UK s (possibly the world s) first CBT clinic exclusively for palliative care patients, and devised CBT First Aid training to enable palliative care colleagues to add new skills to their repertoire for helping patients. Due to the issues involved in one story the book also looks briefly at the legalities and ethics involved in dealing with patients who are approaching the end of life.

No es más que una colección de historias diversas sobre un montón de gente que vivió sus últimos días. It is written by Kathryn Mannix, a palliative care doctor, who shares a collection of stories about some of the patients she has cared for. This outstanding book, which was shortlisted for this year's Wellcome Book Prize and was written by a palliative care physician in the UK, describes several remarkable people she cared for at the end of their lives, their families and other loved ones, and her experiences and lessons learned during her four decades in clinical practice.

But there are also things that irritated me and make me question elements of the narrative, which of course make me question it all. Yes, the book’s full of sad stories, and occasionally I swallowed a lump, but it’s a book about death and dying, and how people cope in/with their final moments, so it never was gonna be much of a hoot. Kathryn Mannix has spent her medical career working with people who have incurable, advanced illnesses. But this ignores the 'doctor-knows-best' use of medication described above - assisted is apparently OK if the Leader and the author decide to do it. Mannix sketches in the historical background in which (n Western Society) death has been shunted off from the.