Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

We have a hard time talking about death in our culture, despite it being inevitable. Our reluctance to address this important part of life has led healthcare down a narrow path in which extreme effort to preserve life at all costs sometimes rips all meaning out of those remaining days.

Gawande does an excellent job of showing what is wrong with the system and how various people are working to make end of life care more humane. Death comes to us all. Giving some thought to the process might help make it easier for everyone.


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