![]() ![]() This book says, OK, granted that we have a broken medical system that is very fragmented toward the end of life, and that we are afraid of death anyway. ![]() “I felt there was a need for a book that was about solutions. ![]() “I felt that I had laid out a problem in the first book,” says Butler, a long-time Bay Area reporter and writer. Her 2013 book Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death was part memoir, part investigation, offering the story of her father’s death as an illustration of what she calls “the Gray Zone,” the suspended state between an active life and clinical death that has been largely created by medical technology. That’s the message behind journalist Katy Butler’s new book The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life (Scribner).īutler, who visits Bookshop Santa Cruz on March 27, has crossed this terrain before. Many of us these days fear not so much the fact of death, but more the chaotic, disorienting and often extremely expensive process of dying that modern medicine has made common.īut if dying is still inevitable, a messy and inhumane death it does not have to be. But the modern age has produced a new and very particular dimension to that primal fear. ![]() The inevitability of death has always been a source of dread and anxiety, across ages and human societies. ![]()
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