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33 Meditations on Death

Notes from the Wrong End of Medicine

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33 Meditations on Death

By: David Jarrett
Narrated by: Simon Bubb
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What is a good death? How would you choose to live your last few months? How do we best care for the rising tide of very elderly?

This unusual and important audiobook is a series of reflections on death in all its forms: the science of it, the medicine, the tragedy and the comedy. Dr David Jarrett draws on family stories and case histories from his 30 years of treating the old, demented and frail to try to find his own understanding of the end. And he writes about all the conversations that we, our parents, our children, the medical community, our government and society as a whole should be having.

Profound, provocative, strangely funny and astonishingly compelling, it is an impassioned plea that we start talking frankly and openly about death. And it is a call to arms for us to make radical changes to our perspective on ‘the seventh age of man’.

©2020 David Jarrett (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Death & Dying Grief & Loss Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Sociology Funny Medicine Health Mental Health
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