02055cam a2200337 i 4500 1164598752 TxAuBib 20170803120000.0 170502s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017009494 9781250112798 $26.99 1250112796 $26.99 DLC eng rda DLC NjBwBT TxAuBib rda O'Mahony, Seamus, author. The way we die now / Seamus O'Mahony. First U.S. edition. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2017. xii, 292 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Orignally published: London : Head of Zeus, 2016. Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292). "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'Mahony's The Way We Die Now, a 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20170803. Death Sociological aspects. Death Social aspects. Terminally ill Care. TXKIP