TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mannix,Kathryn
TI  - With the end in mind: dying, death and wisdom in an age of denial 
SN  - 9780316504485
AV  - HQ1073 .M355 2018
U1  - 304.64 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group
KW  - Death
KW  - Terminal care
KW  - Hospice care
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Palliative treatment
KW  - Terminal Care
KW  - Attitude to Death
KW  - Palliative Care
KW  - Hospice Care
KW  - Popular Work
KW  - Self-help publications
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "January 2018"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references; Introduction -- Reading the label -- Patterns. Unpromising beginnings ; French resistance ; Tiny dancer ; Wrecking ball ; Last waltz ; Pause for thought : patterns -- My way. That is the question ; Never let me go ; Hat ; Take my breath away ; Pause for thought : my way -- Naming death. Second-hand news ; Slipping through my fingers ; Talking about the unmentionable ; The sound of silence ; Every breath you take (I'll be watching you) ; Beauty and the beast ; Pause for thought : naming death -- Looking beyond the now. In the kitchen at parties ; Please release me--A side ; Please release me--B side ; Travel plans ; With love from me to you ; Pause for thought : looking beyond the now -- Legacy. Something unpredictable ; The year of the cat ; Post-mortem ; Needles and pins ; Lullaby ; Pause for thought : legacy -- Transcendence. Musical differences ; Deep dreams ; De profundis ; Perfect day ; 'Only the good die young' ; Pause for thought : transcendence -- Last words
N2  - A palliative care physician draws on stories from her own practice to explain how to enable a gentle and peaceful death and how modern medicine, augmented by traditional palliative approaches, can restore dignity, humanity, and meaning to the end of life
ER  -