How We Die
Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
(amazon)Sherwin B. Nuland (View Bio)
Vintage, 1995
Alfred A. Knopf, 1994
"You cannot read HOW WE DIE without becoming aware of your body, if only ...to ask it impermissible questions. You put the book down merely to pick it up again." — The New Yorker
"Unforgettable." — Kirkus Reviews
"Thought provoking and humane." — Booklist
"There is compassion, and often wisdom, on every page." — San Francisco Examiner
"The story comes from a sensitive observer ...who has seen much, taken much thought, and written it all down with a superior gift for descriptive narrative. " — Washington Post Book World
"Straight-forward, unsparing, yet deeply human." — Anna Quindlen, The New York Times
"Rarer still, we come across an author with both style and substance, who gives us information that is a pleasure to read and from which we have much to learn — or relearn. When that material is combined with the wisdom of experience, we rejoice in the art and craft of medicine at its finest. Nuland's book will occupy a permanent place on the short shelf of such classics. Buy it, read it, recommend it to your patients." — Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
"Profoundly poignant." — People
"Powerfully eloquent.... HOW WE DIE is a relentlessly frank and graphic description.... surprisingly absorbing." — The New York Times
"Engrossing.... We are in the hands of a remarkable portraitist." — The New York Times Book Review
"Engrossing.... Hugely informative." — Times Literary Supplement
"Eloquent and uncommonly moving reflections.... Nuland writes with unsentimental passion. He has the rare ability to explain the abstruse in language that can be both meticulously exact and wondrously evocative." — Time
"Any reader who is still not convinced of his own mortality ...is bound to be altered in some profound way by this book.... This is knowledge we all should have." — USA Today
