At være dødelig

om livsforlængelse og livskvalitet

Hardcover, 272 pages

Danish language

Published Dec. 22, 2016 by Lindhardt og Ringhof.

ISBN:
978-87-11-47518-8
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OCLC Number:
956347024

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4 stars (3 reviews)

Dine kære skal dø. Du skal dø. Vi skal alle dø. Vi ved bare ikke hvornår. Medicinske fremskridt skubber hele tiden grænserne for overlevelse, og vi er blevet stadig mere løsrevet fra det faktum, at vi er dødelige. Denne bog handler om oplevelsen af dødelighed i dag. Om at blive gammel og dø. Med indsigt og følsomhed fortæller Atul Gawande om sine erfaringer som kirurg, om sine patienter og om sin egen families oplevelser. Han lærer os at acceptere livets grænser. Det endelige mål er, trods alt, ikke en god død, men et godt liv – helt frem til slutningen.

Source: www.lindhardtogringhof.dk/vaere-doedelig-om-livsforlaengelse-og-livskvalitet

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Reading this will enable us all to make better decisions around the one aspect of life that is guaranteed for everyone: Death.

4 stars

Being Mortal Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

I think everyone should read this book. Everyone who might be mortal, everyone who may become old and frail. Everyone. I had been thinking that people in the medical profession should read this, especially those with responsibility for the care of the elderly. I still include them, of course, but this book is important to everyone.

“We've been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive. Those reasons matter not just at the end of life, or when debility comes, but all along the way.” ― Atul Gawande, (p259, 'Epilogue' , 'Being Mortal', Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846685)

In this book, Gawande explores how we …

Important and fruitful read

3 stars

This book encourages some crucial conversations and has greatly expanded my view of what it means to pursue health at the last stages of life. Most importantly, even though I'm surely still ill equipped emotionally, I've learned through account of other people's experiences what kinds of questions to ask.

The high relevancy and impact of this read make it worthwhile, but the book suffers from the non-fiction disease of the century: unnecessary long, repetitive, anecdotal and light on inputs from researchers in relevant fields. It might win over the most stubborn reader, but I had to speed through the middle sections of most chapters to ensure I'd have patience for the whole book.