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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying

How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying

Erickson, Karla

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceDeath & DyingPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1439908230
ISBN13: 9781439908235
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: Sep 27 2013
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
As we live longer and die slower and differently than our ancestors, we have come to rely more and more on end-of-life caregivers. These workers navigate a changing landscape of old age and death that many of us have little preparation to encounter. How We Die Now is an absorbing and sensitive investigation of end-of-life issues from the perspectives of patients, relatives, medical professionals, and support staff. Karla Erickson immersed herself in the daily life of workers and elders in a Midwestern community for over two years to explore important questions around the theme of how we die now. She moves readers through and beyond the many fears that attend the social condition of old age and reveals the pleasures of living longer and the costs of slower, sometimes senseless ways of dying. For all of us who are grappling with the elder boom, How We Die Now offers new ways of thinking about our longer lives.

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