A Beginner's Guide to the End

How to Live Life to the Full and Die a Good Death

BJ Miller, Shoshana Berger

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Quercus Publishing
16 July 2019

Sociology: death & dying; Palliative medicine; Coping with death & bereavement

"""I wish I'd had this book when I needed it. Death and dying are not subjects that many people are comfortable talking about, but it's hugely important to be as prepared as you can be - emotionally, physically, practically, financially, and spiritually. This book may be the most important guide you could have."" - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love

The end of a life can often feel like a traumatic, chaotic and inhuman

experience. In this reassuring and inspiring book, palliative care

physician Dr BJ Miller and writer Shoshana Berger provide a vision for

rethinking and navigating this universal process.

There are

plenty of self-help books for mourners, but nothing in the way of a

modern, approachable and above all useful field guide for the living.

And all of us - young, old, sick and well - could use the help. After

all, pregnant couples have ample resources available to them as they

prepare to bring a new life into the world: Lamaze courses, elaborate

birth plans, tons of manuals. Why don't we have a What to Expect When You're Expecting to Die book?

An accessible, beautifully designed and illustrated companion, A Beginner's Guide to the End

offers a clear-eyed and compassionate survey of the most pressing

issues that come up when one is dying, and will bring optimism and

practical guidance to empower readers with the knowledge, resources and

tools they'll need to die better, maybe even with triumph."

By: BJ Miller, Shoshana Berger
Imprint: Quercus Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 660g
ISBN: 9781529403916
ISBN 10: 152940391X
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 16 July 2019
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"BJ Miller (Author) Dr. BJ Miller, Jr. is a hospice and palliative care specialist. He is an assistant professor of clinical medicine at UCSF where he attends on the Symptom Management Service at UCSF's Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Center, one of the first community-based palliative care programs in the country. He is also a long-time director of the Zen Hospice Project, a pioneering hospice organization in San Francisco. BJ is a native of Chicago. He studied art history as an undergraduate at Princeton University. He worked for several years for art and disability-rights nonprofit organizations before earning a medical degree at UCSF. He completed an internal medicine residency at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, where he was chief resident, and a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Harvard Medical School, working at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In his work, he connects humanism and medicine in end-of-life and upstream palliative care. Shoshana Berger (Author) Shoshana got her start as a writer for a magazine called Bikini for whom she interviewed Jeff Buckley and Allen Ginsberg. That led to writing for the New York Times, SPIN, WIRED, and a stint as the editorial director (more like ""cool-hunter"") for Young & Rubicam. With little more than a fuzzy idea and a boil in the blood, she went on to found ReadyMade, a national do-it-yourself design magazine. The venture was funded by 10 credit cards. (Her credit rating is excellent). ReadyMade was a finalist for National Magazine Awards in 2005 and 2006. After co-authoring the book ReadyMade: How to Make Almost Everything (Clarkson Potter), she sold the business to the Meredith Corp., publisher of Better Homes & Gardens. Shoshana then joined WIRED as director of special projects in 2011, and launched a new website, WIRED Design. She landed at IDEO in 2013 as editorial director and hasn't looked back."

Reviews for A Beginner's Guide to the End: How to Live Life to the Full and Die a Good Death

I wish I'd had this book when I needed it. Death and dying are not subjects that many people are comfortable talking about, but it's hugely important to be as prepared as you can be-emotionally, physically, practically, financially, and spiritually. This book may be the most important guide you could have. * Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love *