- Subjects
- Published
-
New York :
Vintage Books
[2010?]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- [New edition]
- Item Description
- Originally published in hardcover: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Includes index.
"This new edition includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the current state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus. It also discusses how we can take control of our own final days and those of our loved ones"--Cover page [4]. - Physical Description
- xviii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9780679742449
- The strangled heart
- A valentine--and how it fails
- Three score and ten
- Doors to death of the aged
- Alzheimer's disease
- Murder and serenity
- Accidents, suicide, and euthanasia
- A story of AIDS
- The life of a virus and the death of a man
- The malevolence of cancer
- Hope and the cancer patient
- The lessons learned
- Coda: 2010.
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