How We Die (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: Doctors, Individuality, God, Death or dying, Medicine, Life, philosophy of, Diseases, Heart attack or disease, Venereal diseases, Alzheimer’s disease
One by one, vast numbers of people die every day and night. They do so in thousands of ways. As long as human life exists on earth so it has been and always will be. Death is nothing new, and neither are books about it. Because death takes so much from human beings—often in pain-filled if not untimely ways—it leaves not only a corpse behind but also senses of loss and grief so deep that nothing quite can fill them. Still, if words are never sufficient to meet the needs that death and dying create, they can help us to cope. So there is no lack of writing about death, most of it...
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