The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America

Ann Neumann

Beacon Press

2016

248 páginas

8h 16m

ISBN-10: 0807080624

"Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States. If a good death exists, what does it look like? This question lies at the heart of Neumann's ... intimately told journey along the ultimate borderland of American life ... From church basements to hospital wards to prison cells, Neumann charts the social, political, religious, and medical landscape to explore how we die today"--