Common Heroes: Facing a Life Threatening Illness

by Eric Blau

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939165120
• ISBN13: 9780939165124
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: NewSage Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.9" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

highly recommend this work for insight into dealing w/death

The interviews and photos in this book are overwhelming. They provide the truth of death and dying, not some glamorized performance of celluloid "heroic death." Having Multiple Sclerosis, I deal with a chronic debilitating disease every day of my life. I know that I get extremely tired of having movies, works of fiction, and well-heeled "personalities" tell me how I should respond to the uncertainty that MS provides. While MS is not termed a life threatening disease- it is the leading cause of death of folks that have my form of MS. This book has helped me to see that the wide range of emotions I go through, and the mood swings my family and friends go through, are the "normal" reaction to such illnesses. The common everyday people like me go through the same thing as I do. We may not be Eric Roberts in It's My Party- we are ourselves. Not lavishly wealthy with access to the best health care and support the world can offer. We are simply humans trying the best we can, doing the most we can with a situation we did not choose for ourselves.The people in this book are brave, they are heroes, and their stories deserve to be told. It helps all who read it and/or discuss it understand that death is a part of life, it is inescapable, and in the barest of moments we are all going to have death as an extremely personal experience.Thank you Dr. Blau, a deep, and profound thanks to those who opened their everyday lives to Dr Blau and showed us the humanity of illness, of death.