Knocking on heaven's door : the path to a better way of death / Katy Butler.
By: Butler, Katy.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Scribner, 2013Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-313).Description: 322 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781451641974 (hardback); 1451641974 (hardback).Subject(s): Terminal care | Terminal care -- Decision making | Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects | Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationshipsDDC classification: 616.02/9Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 616.029 B977 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003484367 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-313).
Pt. 1: The stroke. Along came a blackbird ; A year of grace ; Rites of passage -- Pt. 2: Fast medicine. The tyranny of hope ; Inventing lifesaving and transforming death ; My father's open heart -- Pt. 3: Ordeal. Not getting better ; Dharma sisters ; Broke-down palace ; White water -- Pt. 4: Rebellion. The sorcerer's apprentice ; The business of lifesaving ; Deactivation -- Pt. 5: Acceptance. The art of dying ; Afterward -- Pt. 6: Grace. Valerie makes up her mind ; Old plum tree bent and gnarled -- Pt. 7: Into the light. A better way of death ; A map through the labyrinth ; Notes for a new art of dying.
Memoir of a daughter's struggle to allow her parents the peaceful, natural deaths they wanted and an investigation into the larger forces in medicine, such as technological imperatives, that stand in the way.
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