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(More customer reviews)When asked, the overwhelming percentage of people thinking about their own deaths say that they want to die at home, either alone or with family around and without pain.
About 1200 people a day make it this way. The other 5300 who die on an average day die in a hospital, surrounded by machines and strangers, and often in pain because the doctors are afraid to give to many drugs to patients where the government might come down on them.
My own father reached a point where he was given six months to a year to live. Or he could have an operation. He had the operation. Only afterward were we told that now he had perhaps one to five years. He lived a year and a half, and was in pain every day. The medical profession did not do him a favor.
For me this book can be summed up by four sentences on the last page, they reflect my exact hopes for myself when the time comes:
'Dozens of people taught me that same lesson during my research. They did not fear death, but they feared dying badly. They did not want to live forever, but they wanted to live well for as long as possible. They did not want to die one moment too soon, but they did not want to suffer one moment too long.'
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