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A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath—by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door.
The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own “good death” more likely. This handbook of step by step preparations—practical, communal, physical, and sometimes spiritual—will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it decades, years, or months.
Butler explains how to successfully age in place, why to pick a younger doctor and how to have an honest conversation with her, when not to call 911, and how to make your death a sacred rite of passage rather than a medical event.
This down-to-earth manual for living, aging, and dying with meaning and even joy is based on Butler’s own experience caring for aging parents, as well as hundreds of interviews with people who have successfully navigated a fragmented health system and helped their loved ones have good deaths. It also draws on interviews with nationally recognized experts in family medicine, palliative care, geriatrics, oncology, hospice, and other medical specialties. Inspired by the medieval death manual Ars Moriendi, or the Art of Dying, The Art of Dying Well is the definitive update for our modern age, and illuminates the path to a better end of life.
Download The Art of Dying Well A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life Katy Butler 9781501135316 Books
"Katy Butler has done a fantastic job of creating a guidebook to help navigate the aging process in our healthcare environment. By listening to her advice, you can equip yourself to have much more control and spend your time doing what you want to do. You will learn how to prepare the proper documents, ask the right questions and have honest conversations with your healthcare team. As a physician, I strongly applaud this work! Add it to your family library asap!"
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- Several years ago I entered my eighth decade still vital and vibrant until a cancer diagnosis divided my life into before and after. Up until then I had lived with little thought I would grow old and a confident reliance on the best modern high-tech medicine had to offer. My diagnosis was a wakeup call to live a better life. My treatment, though effective, was a confrontation with the limitations of modern medicine in the face of an aging and increasingly fragile body.
Katy’s first book, Knocking on Heaven’s Door, along with her public persona in the Slow Medicine movement, opened my mind to a new way of thinking about living, dying and the changing role of modern healthcare in an evolving, more patient-oriented, landscape. The Art of Dying Well is a new and much-needed companion for those of us on the far side of our midyears. It is practical - a map, a handbook, an ally - as we explore paths to resilience, decline, adaptation, acceptance, preparation and peaceful passing in an increasingly impersonal and over-medicalized healthcare system. My brand new copy, already inked, dog-eared and tattered is now beside me as I navigate my own journey forward. An excellent resource. - Katy Butler has written about the journey of what it is to be human. With gentleness and grace, she tackles the reality that death is something we all will face. For too long we all have hoped we would pass away in our sleep, when is a reality for few. Like a book about pregnancy and birth, Katy has meticulously researched and given us a comprehensive guide for the journey toward the end of life. She educates us about the challenges and choices we have along the way.
As a nurse who has practiced for over 40 years and spent the last decade working in palliative care, The Art of Dying Well is a book I wish I would have had the skill to write! Woven into this book are rich stories to illustrate the challenges and choices we may face when our bodies tire and life ends. I recommend this book for both medical and lay persons alike. It is a meticulously researched and comprehensive guide for navigating the journey we all must make. - I very much agree with keeping as healthy as one can, avoiding unnecessary tests, refusing any treatment with unacceptable side effects, and not prolonging a miserable end of life. However, I was disappointed with the medical errors that riddle this book; I was also reminded of many uninformed patients who panic because of misunderstanding. I'll be using the subjects she brings up to be sure I'm up to date with reliable information.
- Americans have a distinctive obsession with living the good life eating well. (What is eating well - paleo? mediterranean? gluten free? ) Mindfulness. Meditation. Running. Not running. Saving for retirement. Giving all your money away. Cleaning out all your possessions. Having exhausted our list of topics about getting the life we believe we deserve, we are now devouring books about the latest - and final - self improvement project, "dying "well." As a former hospice chaplain and someone who has walked with a mother and 2 sisters to the end, I know from experience there is no such thing as a "good" death. Death comes to us in many ways. Some are peaceful, connected and filled with grace, while others remain dismal, depressing and bitter. Where the deaths of those we love land on this spectrum is multi-factoral and not remedied by yet another "how to" book. There are valuable anecdotes here for those who have never navigated the end of life health care industry. But make no mistake, the myth of "the good death" powers a huge industry, including the publication of yet another book on the fantasy that we can, if we follow the next trend, get death "right."
- Katy Butler has done a fantastic job of creating a guidebook to help navigate the aging process in our healthcare environment. By listening to her advice, you can equip yourself to have much more control and spend your time doing what you want to do. You will learn how to prepare the proper documents, ask the right questions and have honest conversations with your healthcare team. As a physician, I strongly applaud this work! Add it to your family library asap!
- A long excerpt in the Wall Street Journal in mid February motivated me to get this recent book. I have seen a half dozen friends die over the past two years and all had different experiences. Families did not exert much control. Visited a long-time friend yesterday. His wife has been in hospice for 6 months. He said this experience has beaten him down mentally and physically. I have vowed to do better for myself.
- I was in the midst of reading Butler's first book, Knocking on Heaven's Door, the week before my dad died. It heavily influenced my thoughts and actions to not prolong my dad's suffering during his final days. Now I find myself with Butler's second book, The Art of Dying Well being published, as my mom reaches the end of her life. It is quite timely for me to understand the different stages my mother is navigating.
But The Art of Dying Well isn't just about one's parents. Most baby boomers are unprepared for navigating their own aging. I suggest reading it well before you need it. Knowledge is power, and Butler's book has given me the gift of learning more now, while things are relatively calm. A crisis visit to an ER isn't the time to cram in education and research. You may need to be an advocate for yourself or someone you love sooner than later. I will suggest the book to my siblings and friends, which will hopefully lead to meaningful conversation and planning to support each other through our elder years. I am grateful for Butler's practical guide, which is filled with wisdom and resources. I anticipate referring to it again and again as I age. - This is an amazing book, full of useful information. Although, it does make you contemplate your trajectory towards aging and death which is somwhat depressing. The upside is the control it can provide over the way you would like to end your life - in a hospital room connected to machines or at home listening to your favorite music.
