Record details

• ISBN: 9781400066278
• ISBN: 1400066271
• ISBN: 9780739479902
• Physical Description: x, 189 pages ; 21 cm
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: New York : Random House, [2006]
• Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Reflections on life and death, written from a Washington, D.C. area hospice.

Formatted Contents Note:

On standby for Heaven -- The man who would not die -- How I wound up in a hospice -- Life at the hospice -- Caregivers -- The question of death -- Depression -- People in my life -- Final arrangements -- The salon -- Mail call -- Poster boy -- Communication -- Death in the afternoon -- Awards for staying alive -- Sex and lies -- In the news -- Spoiled rotten -- Five people -- Too soon to say goodbye.

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Buchwald, Art.
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