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23%OFFJohn Humphrys - The Welcome Visitor - 9780340923788 - V9780340923788
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The Welcome Visitor

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Description for The Welcome Visitor Paperback. The first book - personal, practical and ethical - to deal with death and dying well by a popular Radio 4 Today presenter alongside a high-profile GP Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.

Death is a subject modern society shies away from. Even doctors avoid the word. But if we regard death as a failure in our desire to prolong life, can we ever arrive at a humane approach to those whose lives have lost meaning? Are we keeping people alive simply because we can?
Here, John Humphrys and his co-author Dr Sarah Jarvis take a wider look at how our attitudes to death have changed as doctors have learned how to prolong life beyond anything that could have been imagined only a few generations ago, and confront one of the great challenges facing the western world today.
There are no easy answers but the first step must surely be to accept that death can be as welcome as it is inevitable.

Product Details

Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340923788
SKU
V9780340923788
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About John Humphrys
John Humphrys has reported from all over the world for the BBC and presented its frontline news programmes on both radio and television, in a broadcasting career spanning forty years. He has won a string of national awards and been described as a 'national treasure'. He owned a dairy farm for ten years and has homes in Wales, Greece and London. Dr Sarah Jarvis is a GP in London as well as making regular media appearances in The One Show and with her own column in Good Housekeeping magazine.

Reviews for The Welcome Visitor
This is an important book. It needs to be. Slowly, we are coming to realise that a life well lived might decently conclude with a death well and timely died.
Terry Pratchett
Compelling
Daily Mail
Impassioned and impressive
Sunday Times
Comforting... Honest... It is a relief to have some of the private struggles of dealing with death brought out into the open. He is determined to tell it like it is.
Daily Telegraph
a powerful, compassionate book, movingly illustrated
FT on Sunday
Tremendously uplifting ...deserves the widest readership
News Talk
illuminating and helpful
The Times

Goodreads reviews for The Welcome Visitor


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