The first half of this book is about nursing homes and assisted living and how to do it well by giving people their autonomy back. The second half is The first half of this book is about nursing homes and assisted living and how to do it well by giving people their autonomy back. The second half is about palliative and hospice care at the end of life (illustrated primarily through old people with untreatable cancer). It demonstrates how often this is handled poorly, but also how to handle it well. This is both a useful guide for medical practitioners, friends, family, and sooner or later oneself. Learning about this feels empowering and alleviates some anxiety about the process of dying. Palliative medicine can help you to die with low pain and in sleep.
This book is not about mortality per say – if we didn't have illness or aging but just went from perfect health one day to a peaceful death asleep that night then assisted living and hospice care wouldn't be necessary. The book doesn't raise questions such as how to go on living (even when healthy) and also be aware of the finiteness of one's existence. Or seeming insignificance or meaninglessness. For these topics read Death....more
I found this book helpful and somewhat comforting. It helps me conceive as death as something which certainly has bad aspects, but is not wholly bad, I found this book helpful and somewhat comforting. It helps me conceive as death as something which certainly has bad aspects, but is not wholly bad, and indeed has some good aspects....more
I wish I had read this book in 2015. Even reading it now I still find it a balm to my soul. Frankl gives the best answer I've come across to the questI wish I had read this book in 2015. Even reading it now I still find it a balm to my soul. Frankl gives the best answer I've come across to the question raised by A Confession (or Solomon's Ecclesiastics, for that matter)....more
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