Nous sommes tous mortels

ce qui compte vraiment en fin de vie

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French language

Published Oct. 22, 2015 by Fayard.

ISBN:
978-2-213-68878-7
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OCLC Number:
991274146

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4 stars (3 reviews)

La mort est souvent perçue comme une injustice, un échec, une souffrance continue. L’allongement de l’espérance de vie dans nos sociétés occidentales, qui nous a éloignés des réalités de notre condition de mortels, y est assurément pour quelque chose. La pratique médicale aussi, qui a tendance à multiplier les soins et les traitements coûte que coûte, même quand l’espoir n’est plus permis. Face à cet état de fait, le chirurgien Atul Gawande s’interroge sur la mort et les limites de la médecine, et pose une question fondamentale : au crépuscule d’une vie, comment continuer à mener une existence aussi riche que possible ? Nombre de solutions existent, et une structure adaptée permet de gagner en qualité de vie. Atul Gawande l’illustre en racontant des histoires, parfois bouleversantes, et livre un véritable plaidoyer pour une médecine qui saurait écouter et discuter avec les patients de leurs désirs et de leurs peurs. …

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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.