The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life by Butler, Katy

The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life

A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life--from resilient old age to...
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Author: Katy Butler
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The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life by Butler, Katy

The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life

$338.83

The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life

$338.83
Author: Katy Butler
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life--from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath--by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven's Door.

The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own "good death" more likely. This handbook of step by step preparations--practical, communal, physical, and sometimes spiritual--will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it decades, years, or months.

Butler explains how to successfully age in place, why to pick a younger doctor and how to have an honest conversation with her, when not to call 911, and how to make your death a sacred rite of passage rather than a medical event.

This down-to-earth manual for living, aging, and dying with meaning and even joy is based on Butler's own experience caring for aging parents, as well as hundreds of interviews with people who have successfully navigated a fragmented health system and helped their loved ones have good deaths. It also draws on interviews with nationally recognized experts in family medicine, palliative care, geriatrics, oncology, hospice, and other medical specialties. Inspired by the medieval death manual Ars Moriendi, or the Art of Dying, The Art of Dying Well is the definitive update for our modern age, and illuminates the path to a better end of life.

Author: Katy Butler
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 02/19/2019
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781501135316


Review Citation(s):
BookPage 03/01/2019
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2018 pg. 42
Publishers Weekly 12/17/2018
Shelf Awareness 02/19/2019

About the Author
Butler, Katy: - Katy Butler's articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Science Writing, and The Best American Essays. A finalist for a National Magazine Award, she lives in Northern California. She is the author of Knocking on Heaven's Door and The Art of Dying Well.

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