A Few Months to Live: Different Paths to Life's End

by Jana Staton, Ira Byock, Roger W. Shuy

Book Overview

A Few Months to Live describes what dying is like from the perspectives of nine terminally ill individuals and their caregivers. Documenting a unique study of end-of-life experiences that included detailed conversations in home care settings, the book focuses on how participants lived their daily lives, understood their illnesses, coped with symptoms-especially pain-and searched for meaning or spiritual growth in their final months of life. The accounts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087840841X
• ISBN13: 9780878408412
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher