Author:
O'Mahony, Seamus, author.
Edition Statement:First U.S. edition.
Imprint:New York, NY : Thomas Dunne Books, c2017.
Descriptionxii, 292 pages ; 22 cm
Note:Orignally published: London : Head of Zeus, 2016.
Note:What do I know? -- Hidden death -- A hesitation to be brave -- How the poor die -- Deathology -- Celebrity cancer ward -- A passion for control -- To philosophize is to learn how to die -- Live for ever -- Creatureliness -- Epilogue: Some modest proposals.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
Note:"We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors, and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are unlikely to see even their family doctor in their final hours, robbed of their dignity and fed through a tube after a long series of excessive and hopeless medical interventions. This is the starting point of Seamus O'Mahony's The Way We Die Now, a thoughtful, moving and unforgettable book on the western way of death. Dying has never been more public, with celebrities writing detailed memoirs of their illness, but in private we have done our best to banish all thought of dying and made a good death increasingly difficult to achieve"-- Provided by publisher.
