The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America By Ann Neumann

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Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States.When Ann Neumann’s father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She became his full-time caregiver—cooking, cleaning, and administering medications. When her father died, she was undone by the experience, by grief and the visceral quality of dying. Neumann struggled to put her life back in order and found herself haunted by a question: Was her father’s death a good death?The way we talk about dying and the way we actually die are two very different things, she discovered, and many of us are shielded from what death actually looks like. To gain a better understanding, Neumann became a hospice volunteer and set out to discover what a good death is today. She attended conferences, academic lectures, and grief sessions in church basements. She went to Montana to talk with the attorney who successfully argued for the legalization of aid in dying, and to Scranton, Pennsylvania, to listen to “pro-life” groups who believe the removal of feeding tubes from some patients is tantamount to murder. Above all, she listened to the stories of those who were close to death.What Neumann found is that death in contemporary America is much more complicated than we think. Medical technologies and increased life expectancies have changed the very definition of medical death. And although death is our common fate, it is also a divisive issue that we all experience differently. What constitutes a good death is unique to each of us, depending on our age, race, economic status, culture, and beliefs. What’s more, differing concepts of choice, autonomy, and consent make death a contested landscape, governed by social, medical, legal, and religious systems.In these pages, Neumann brings us intimate portraits of the nurses, patients, bishops, bioethicists, and activists who are shaping the way we die. The Good Death presents a fearless examination of how we approach death, and how those of us close to dying loved ones live in death’s wake.

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I’ve been kind of obsessed with end-of-life issues since I was in my twenties, and so have read many of the books that have come out over the years. Recently, Atul Gawande popularized the idea of The Conversation, that difficult but necessary discussion we should have with anyone we love about what we, and they, want when the end comes. (Spoiler: it will). Katy Butler took that idea and panned out a little to see the institutional landscape in which many of these medical decisions are made, or made for us. But Ann Neumann’s new book THE GOOD DEATH: An Exploration of Dying in America brilliantly pushes the debate to the next level. With an intimate and informed voice that is alternately curious, humble and sassy, she embarks on a journey both personal and reported to find out what it means to live and die in America today. With the starting point of experiencing her own father’s death -- which planted the question in her mind: was it a “good death?” -- Neumann goes on to become a hospice volunteer, buying strings for a dying man’s instrument and weed for a dying woman’s peace. She seeks out lawyers fighting for assisted suicide cases, prisoners who are being force-fed, and a man who lambasts Ann for her lack of support of disability rights on his blog, “Bad Cripple” but then they meet in person and the conversation deepens. In an ever-shifting landscape of medical advances that transform traditional notions of medical autonomy and medical ethics, THE GOOD DEATH provides an insightful and necessary addition to a topic that concerns every single one of us. Highly recommended.

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