Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End ~ by Atul Gawande, 2014
Is it medicine's job to keep us alive? Or is it well-being that really matters? I don't want to spend my dying days in a nursing home in a bed with rails that hold me in or tied into a wheelchair. All that does is prolong my dying, not help me really live as I want to live. Gawande argues that quality of life is the desired goal. I heard about this book in one book club and plan to suggest it to my other book discussion group.
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by
Claire @ The Captive Reader and
Linda @ Silly Little Mischief that encourages us to share the names of books we checked out of the library. See what others got
this week.
2 comments:
Sounds really interesting. Enjoy!
I read this after my father's death and found it very moving. It colors how I help my mom deal with her retirement and how I plan my own.
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