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A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

av Dr. BJ Miller

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"The first ever practical, compassionate, and comprehensive guide to dying--and living fully until you do. "There is nothing wrong with you for dying," palliative care doctor BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner's Guide to the End. "Our ultimate purpose here isn't so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do." Theirs is a clear-eyed and big-hearted action plan for approaching the end of life, written to help readers feel more in control of an experience that so often seems anything but. Their book offers everything from step-by-step instructions for how to do your paperwork and navigate the healthcare system to answers to questions you might be afraid to ask your doctor, like whether or not sex is still okay when you're sick. You'll be walked through how to break the news to your employer, whether to share old secrets with your family, how to face friends who might not be as empathetic as you'd hoped, and to how to talk to your children about your will. (Don't worry: if anyone gets snippy, it'll likely be their spouses, not them.) There are also lessons for survivors, like how shut down a loved one's social media accounts, clean out the house, and write a great eulogy. An honest, surprising, and detailed-oriented guide to the most universal of all experiences, A Beginner's Guide to the End is the one book that everyone needs"-- "The first-ever soup-to-nuts practical guide to preparing for death, from how to talk to your children about your will, to how to hack the hospice system, to how your survivors can pull off a great eulogy. Think of this as What to Expect When You're Expecting to Die"--… (mer)
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When reading A Beginner's Guide to the End know that there's a heavy emphasis on the word 'Practical' in the subtitle. This book has everything, and I mean nearly everything, you need to know about the end-of-life. And the information here is for any of the potential roles one will inevitably find themselves in now or in the future—a caregiver, a surviving family member or friend, or even the one who's dying.

The book is cleverly arranged in a chronological layout. The beginning chapters discuss seemingly far-off considerations such as wills and estate planning while the end chapters discuss oft-neglected considerations in the days, months and years after death has occurred. ( )
  Daniel.Estes | Jun 5, 2023 |
First of all: Don't freak out or be sad -- while I do have stage 4 cancer, I'm not planning on dying anytime soon. Second of all: (Spoiler alert) We are all going to die, and so are all our loved ones. This book was described to me as a 'What to Expect When You're Expecting," but for dying instead of for giving birth, and that's pretty accurate! Written by a hospice doctor and a journalist / caregiver, this easy and (honestly) fun-to-read book covers the usual things like writing a will and getting your affairs in order but goes WAY beyond what other books in this category cover. Topics include emotional things like dealing with a diagnosis or grief, and practical things like symptom management, what to bring to the hospital, what dying is actually like, how many copies of a death certificate to request, funeral / burial options, and what services you can expect from hospice. As someone on the patient side of things, I really appreciated that the majority of the book was written directly to the patient, with sidebars for the caregivers, and didn't diminish our agency in this whole process. And as a librarian I loved the lists of resources by topic at the end of the book, as well as the very well crafted index. Overall it is just a remarkably clear-eyed, caring, practical, and comforting guide to something that comes into everyone's life more than once, but which we, as a culture, never want to face head on. If you are caring for an aging parent, dealing with your own illness, or are blessed enough to be hitting old age, this is a good book for you. Highly recommended. ( )
  kristykay22 | Mar 26, 2023 |
The first ever practical, compassionate, and comprehensive guide to dying--and living fully until you do.
  NetivotLibrary | Oct 11, 2021 |
This book is something precious, and as far as I know unique -- a practical and compassionate guide to dealing with death. That's not something that most people want to think about, so there is a tendency to avoid the subject until it can't be avoided any longer. Then, too many of us have to take complicated steps and make difficult decisions in the midst of emotional turmoil and physical suffering. This book enables someone who is facing death (which is all of us, of course) to see the steps -- financial, legal, medical, and emotional -- which we need to take, and set about taking them. I wish I had had this book when my mother died, and when dear friends died. Now, I am facing my husband's death due to illness, and my own due to old age, and I DO have this book. I find it very enlightening -- here is what you need to do -- and very comforting. I've been recommending it to all my friends, my family and my doctors: can't praise it highly enough. ( )
  annbury | Jan 18, 2020 |
The good news is my demise is not yet in sight. The bad news is, one really never knows! The tie in to this book is that very few people really plan to deal with the ordeal of being taken out by illness. Yet that is what many of will face as we wrap things up.

The book walks you through multiple factors you will encounter from the paperwork to the pain. And sometimes that paperwork is the pain. But in all seriousness each topics is handled thoroughly and gave me insights and considerations that frankly I would never have considered.

So now armed with all of this useful information as I approach the stretch run, (hopefully about 20+ years away) I am much more at ease as to what to expect and how to deal with it. And for most of us procrastinators this is clearly a wake up call to get busy and have things in order so those last precious months weeks and days will transition as smoothly as possible. And most of all to help lessen the burden on those who care about and for us to see us through. ( )
  knightlight777 | Dec 7, 2019 |
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"The first ever practical, compassionate, and comprehensive guide to dying--and living fully until you do. "There is nothing wrong with you for dying," palliative care doctor BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner's Guide to the End. "Our ultimate purpose here isn't so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do." Theirs is a clear-eyed and big-hearted action plan for approaching the end of life, written to help readers feel more in control of an experience that so often seems anything but. Their book offers everything from step-by-step instructions for how to do your paperwork and navigate the healthcare system to answers to questions you might be afraid to ask your doctor, like whether or not sex is still okay when you're sick. You'll be walked through how to break the news to your employer, whether to share old secrets with your family, how to face friends who might not be as empathetic as you'd hoped, and to how to talk to your children about your will. (Don't worry: if anyone gets snippy, it'll likely be their spouses, not them.) There are also lessons for survivors, like how shut down a loved one's social media accounts, clean out the house, and write a great eulogy. An honest, surprising, and detailed-oriented guide to the most universal of all experiences, A Beginner's Guide to the End is the one book that everyone needs"-- "The first-ever soup-to-nuts practical guide to preparing for death, from how to talk to your children about your will, to how to hack the hospice system, to how your survivors can pull off a great eulogy. Think of this as What to Expect When You're Expecting to Die"--

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