How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
#128 of 3,809 books · #10 in Science & Technology
Won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1994). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.
Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity.
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- Vintage Books
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- 9780679742449
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Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1994)
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1995)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1994)
Other awarded books from Sherwin B. Nuland
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