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Experience of Dying (A Spectrum book) S-419 - by E. Mansell Pattison - 1977
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1 author picked The Experience of Dying as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Pattison’s book offers a rare mix: specific insights based on evidence and experience, and a kind of gentleness. Here’s an example of what I mean: This is where I first read about the ups and downs of “the living-dying interval,” the time between when a person is diagnosed with a terminal condition and death. Just naming and describing the interval helps others better imagine what it’s like. Pattison is also good at pointing out important nuances. He discusses attitudes at different stages of life, because of course it’s not the same to die at age ten as at age ninety.…
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