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Knocking on heaven's door : the path to a better way of death / Katy Butler.
- Title
- Knocking on heaven's door : the path to a better way of death / Katy Butler.
- Author
- Butler, Katy, 1949-
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | R726.8 .B884 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 322 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "A blend of memoir and investigation of the choices we face when our terror of death collides with the technological imperatives of modern medicine"--
- Subject
- Butler, Katy
- Butler, Katy, 1949-
- Butler, Katy, 1949- > Family
- Medical Futility > ethics
- Attitude to Death
- Terminal Care > ethics
- Right to Die
- Adult Children
- Parents
- Treatment Refusal
- Euthanasia > ethics
- Terminally Ill
- Terminal Care > ethics
- Attitude to Death
- Terminal Care
- SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- MEDICAL / General
- Terminal care
- Terminal care > Decision making
- Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects
- Adult children of aging parents > Family relationships
- Terminally Ill > Personal Narratives
- Hospice Care
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative
- Biography
- Autobiography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-313).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. 1: The stroke. Along came a blackbird ; A year of grace ; Rites of passage -- Pt. 2: Fast medicine. The tyranny of hope ; Inventing lifesaving and transforming death ; My father's open heart -- Pt. 3: Ordeal. Not getting better ; Dharma sisters ; Broke-down palace ; White water -- Pt. 4: Rebellion. The sorcerer's apprentice ; The business of lifesaving ; Deactivation -- Pt. 5: Acceptance. The art of dying ; Afterward -- Pt. 6: Grace. Valerie makes up her mind ; Old plum tree bent and gnarled -- Pt. 7: Into the light. A better way of death ; A map through the labyrinth ; Notes for a new art of dying.
- ISBN
- 9781451641974 (hbk.)
- 1451641974 (hbk.)
- 9781451641998 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
- 1451641990 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013017659
- OCLC
- 843955794
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library