How we die : reflections on life's final chapter /
Sherwin B. Nuland.
- 1st ed.
- New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1994.
- xviii, 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
The strangled heart -- A valentine--and how it fails -- Three score and ten -- Doors to death of the aged -- Alzheimer's disease -- Murder and serenity -- Accidents, suicide, and euthanasia -- A story of AIDS -- The life of a virus and the death of a man -- The malevolence of cancer -- Hope and the cancer patient -- The lessons learned.