We Need to Talk: Conversations to Ease Fear and Suffering Surrounding End of Life - 9540

Dying can be hard work, but the evolution of healthcare over the past 50 years has made it harder than it needs to be. Here is a compassionate guide to ease fear and provide clarity surrounding the end of life. Author David White shares from his life’s work spent at more than 10,000 bedsides as a hospital, nursing home, and hospice chaplain. This compact volume outlines the options that are ours to choose, and provides compelling reasons to have “the Conversation” about the care we’d prefer. White invites us to safely approach and address one of our culture’s most self-defeating taboos, our stubborn reluctance to discuss death and dying. This is an essential roadmap for a time of life that awaits us all, as well as for those caretakers accompanying us on the journey. "Here is an insightful wake up call to all of us to shape our end-of-life journey more consciously and deliberately." — Hans Boerma, MD "We Need to Talk is a valuable contribution to our contemporary American culture – By encouraging conversations we all need to be having... It’s a book to read and give to others.” — Ira Byock, MD, author of Dying Well and The Best Care Possible, Founder & Senior Vice President for Strategic Innovation of the Institute for Human Caring “The most challenging part of David White’s calm, wise guide to the end of life lies not in reading his book, but in opening it. It’s human nature to avoid the shadows of our own demise until the last moment, when suitable options are at their scarcest. We all hope for a soft landing; the good medicine of We Need to Talk greatly improves one’s chances of such an outcome.”— Garry Trudeau
ASIN: B0B2TZ9892
VSKU: BVV.B0B2TZ9892.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:White, David S.|Stuart MD, Brad
Binding: Paperback