text How we die : reflections on life's final chapter
- Summary
- "There is a vast literature on death and dying, but there are few reliable accounts of the ways in which we die. The intimate account of how various diseases take away life, offered in How We Die, is not meant to prompt horror or terror but to dem... Read more
- Contents
- 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 o... Read more
- Format
- text
- Description
- xviii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher
- A.A. Knopf 1994