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Knocking on Heaven's Door : The Path to a Better Way of Death by Butler, Katy is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Knocking on Heaven's Door : The Path to a Better Way of Death about?

"A blend of memoir and investigation of the choices we face when our terror of death collides with the technological imperatives of modern medicine";"An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magazine piece. This is the story of one daughter's struggleto allow her parents the peaceful, natural deaths they wanted and to investigate the larger forces in medicine that stood in the way. When doctors refused to disable the pacemaker that caused her eighty-four-year-old father's heart to outlive his brain, Katy Butler, an award-winning science writer, embarked on a quest to understand why modern medicine was depriving him of a humane, timely death. After his lingering death, Katy's mother, nearly broken by years of nonstop caregiving, defied her doctors, refused open-heart surgery, and insisted on facing death the old-fashioned way: bravely, lucidly, and head on. Against this backdrop of familial love, wrenching moral choices, and redemption, Knocking on Heaven's Door celebrates the inventors of the 1950s who cobbled together lifesaving ma

Who reads Knocking on Heaven's Door : The Path to a Better Way of Death?

Author

Butler, Katy

Publisher

Scribner;Simon and Schuster

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781451641998

Category

self-help

Subjects

Self Help, Medical, Memoir

Rating

4.1 / 5 (2,149 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14