Books
Katy Butler ‘s “The Art of Dying Well”
The Art of Dying Well will help you live well as possible for as long as possible and adapt successfully to change.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.
Atul Gawande’s “Being Mortal”
Barbara Karnes End of Life Education Material
“There’s a normal, natural way of dying. My materials are written to guide and support anyone who is addressing end of life situations. The goal is to help people have a positive experience so families will have a sacred memory to carry with them.” - Barbara Karnes, RN
“When Breathe Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.