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What colour is cancer? Why do some people appear to have made miraculous recoveries? How can you tell when someone is in the final hours of their life? How can we ensure our most vulnerable are treated with the dignity they deserve? In this unprecedented memoir, a palliative medicine pioneer explores the biggest taboo in our society and the only certainty we all share: death. Kathryn Mannix immortalises the thousands of men and women she has seen off.

Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar and gentle process, death has come to be something from which we shy away, preferring to fight it desperately than to accept its inevitability. Palliative care has a long tradition in Britain, where Dr. Kathryn Mannix has practiced it for 30 years. In this book, she shares beautifully crafted stories from a lifetime of caring for the dying.

From the best-selling author of With the End in Mind, this is a book about the conversations that matter and how to have them better - more honestly, more confidently and without regret. A child coming out to their parent. A family losing someone to terminal illness. A friend noticing the first signs of someone’s dementia. A career’s advisor and a teenager with radically different perspectives. There are moments when we must talk, listen and be there for one another.

Como estive diante da morte milhares de vezes, concluí que há pouco a temer e muito a preparar. Infelizmente, costumo encontrar pacientes e famílias que acreditam no oposto: que a morte é terrível e que falar sobre ela ou preparar-se para ela será triste ou assustador. O objetivo deste livro é permitir que as pessoas se familiarizem com o processo da morte. Para tanto, as histórias foram agrupadas por temas, começando com as que descrevem o processo e a evolução da morte e as diversas maneiras como as pessoas reagem a ela.