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Zusatztext "[ Knocking on Heaven's Door is] a triumph, distinguished by the beauty of Ms. Butler's prose and her saber-sharp indictment of certain medical habits. [Butler offers an] articulate challenge to the medical profession: to reconsider its reflexive postponement of death long after lifesaving acts cease to be anything but pure brutality." — Abigail Zuger, MD, The New York Times Informationen zum Autor Katy Butler, a former finalist for a National Magazine Award, has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and other publications. Her work is anthologized in The Best American Science Writing, The Best American Essays, and The Best Buddhist Writing. A winner of the “Science in Society” award from the National Association of Science Writers, she lives in northern California. Klappentext Guide to maintaining a high quality of life from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door. Leseprobe Chapter 1: Preparing for a Good End of Life The River Grows Wider Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.… The best way to overcome it is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. [Those] who can see life in this way will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things [they care] for will continue. —BERTRAND RUSSELL Zusammenfassung Guide to maintaining a high quality of life from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door....
