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Ten years after Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's death, a commemorative
edition with a new introduction and updated resources section of
her beloved groundbreaking classic on the five stages of grief.
One of the most important psychological studies of the late
twentieth century, "On Death and Dying" grew out of Dr. Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross's famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and
transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kubler-Ross first explored
the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger,
bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sample interviews
and conversations, she gives readers a better understanding of how
imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve
that patient, and the patient's family, bringing hope to all who
are involved.
This edition includes an elegant, enlightening introduction by Dr.
Ira Byock, a prominent palliative care physican and the author of
"Dying Well."
"A Few Months to Live "describes what dying is like from the
perspectives of nine terminally ill individuals and their
caregivers. Documenting a unique study of end-of-life experiences
that included detailed conversations in home care settings, the
book focuses on how participants lived their daily lives,
understood their illnesses, coped with symptoms-especially pain-and
searched for meaning or spiritual growth in their final months of
life. The accounts are presented largely in the participants' own
words, illuminating both the medical and non-medical challenges
that arose from the time each learned the "bad news" through their
final days of life and memorial services.
Describing the nationwide crisis that surrounds end-of-life
care, the authors contend that informal caregiving by relatives and
close friends is an enormous and too-often invisible resource that
deserves close and public attention. By incorporating not only the
ill person's but also the family's perspective, they portray the
nine participants in the contexts of their daily lives and
relationships rather than simply as patients. Addressing such
issues as palliative care, quality of life, financial hardship,
grief and loss, and communications with medical personnel, the
authors identify how families, professionals, and communities can
respond to the challenges of terminal illness and the need to
confront life's end.
Inspiring teachings, personal stories, and meditations for being
with a dying person and contemplating the transformative power of
death, by a Zen teacher who has worked with the dying for thirty
years.
The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of
all backgrounds-as has been demonstrated time and again in Joan
Halifax's decades of work with the dying and their caregivers. Here
Joan shares her experiences and wisdom from her Being with Dying
project based on Buddhist principles. Her teachings affirm that we
can open and contact our inner strength, and that we can help
others who are suffering to do the same. Her seasoned, realistic
approach to caring for and being present with people in the last
stages of life is especially encouraging.
A doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the
most important and controversial social issues of our time.
It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Though the
vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home--which
hospice care provides--many of us spend our last days fearful and
in pain in a healthcare system ruled by high-tech procedures and a
philosophy to "fight disease and illness at all cost."
Dr. Ira Byock, one of the foremost palliative-care physicians in
the country, argues that how we die represents a national crisis
today. To ensure the best possible elder care, Dr. Byock explains
we must not only remake our healthcare system but also move beyond
our cultural aversion to thinking about death. "The Best Care
Possible" is a compelling meditation on medicine and ethics told
through page-turning life-or-death medical drama. It has the power
to lead a new national conversation.
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