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Seamus O'Mahony

The Way We Die Now

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'Mahoney's 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.
252 páginas impressas
Detentor dos direitos autorais
Head of Zeus
Ano da publicação
2016
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  • nitrushinafez uma citaçãohá 8 anos
    Our sense of common decency − of kindness − has become sclerosed.
  • nitrushinafez uma citaçãohá 8 anos
    In novels, death is portrayed as the logical, inevitable conclusion to the life that has led up to it. Of course, life (and death) just isn’t like that. There is no core personality; it alters over time and within time. This explains why the cowardly sometimes die well and the brave sometimes die badly. Those who are most attached to their own personalities find it hardest to die.
  • nitrushinafez uma citaçãohá 8 anos
    Being a burden is the antithesis of contemporary atomization and aggressive individualism. We should want to be a burden to those who love us, and they should want to bear that burden.

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