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Death
by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Scribner; 1 (June 09 1997)
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Chapter 2: Why Is It So Hard to Die?
Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society.

Chapter 2: Why Is It So Hard to Die? Part 2
A death on an obstetric ward, where deaths do not normally occur, is a very different experience. I recall the death of a patient who up to the moment of crisis was expected to have a normal child and a normal delivery.

Chapter 2: Why Is It So Hard to Die? Part 3
How do I know how sick I am? The physician does not tell me. The nurses do not tell me. I do not really know. This results in finding ways of determining my service eligibility - of locating the size of my service bank account.



Book Description

Ours is a death-denying society. But death is inevitable, and we must face the question of how to deal with it. Coming to terms with our own finiteness helps us discover life's true meaning.

Why do we treat death as a taboo? What are the sources of our fears? How do we express our grief, and how do we accept the death of a person close to us? How can we prepare for our own death?

Drawing on our own and other cultures' views of death and dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross provides some illuminating answers to these and other questions. She offers a spectrum of viewpoints, including those of ministers, rabbis, doctors, nurses, and sociologists, and the personal accounts of those near death and of their survivors.

Once we come to terms with death as a part of human development, the author shows, death can provide us with a key to the meaning of human existence.

About the Author

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D.Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross earned a place as the best-loved and most-respected authority on the subjects of death and dying. Through her many books, as well as her years working with terminally ill children, AIDS patients, and the elderly, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross brought comfort and understanding to millions coping with their own deaths or the death of a loved one.

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