Knocking on Heaven's Door kapak görseli

Knocking on Heaven's Door

The Path to a Better Way of Death

Önizleme
SINIRLI SÜRELİ TEKLİF

3 ay boyunca aylık £0,99

Bu fırsatı yakala
Teklif 29 Ocak 2026 tarihinde saat 23:59 GMT itibarıyla sona erer.
Diğer seçenekler

Knocking on Heaven's Door

Yazan: Katy Butler
Seslendiren: Katy Butler
Bu fırsatı yakala

3 aydan sonra aylık 8,99 £. Aylık olarak iptal edilir. Teklif 29 Ocak 2026 tarihinde saat 23:59 GMT itibarıyla sona erer.

13,84£ karşılığında satın al

13,84£ karşılığında satın al

This Season's Biggest Deal | £0.99/mo for 3 months + £10 Audible bonus

£5.99/mo after 3 months - terms apply. Cancel monthly
Özet
“A thoroughly researched and compelling mix of personal narrative and hard-nosed reporting that captures just how flawed care at the end of life has become” (Abraham Verghese,The New York Times Book Review).

This bestselling memoir—hailed a “triumph” by The New York Times—ponders the “Good Death” and the forces within medicine that stand in its way.

Award-winning journalist Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her aging parents when the call came: her beloved seventy-nine-year-old father had suffered a crippling stroke. Katy and her mother joined the more than 28 million Americans who are shepherding loved ones through their final declines.

Doctors outfitted her father with a pacemaker, which kept his heart going while doing nothing to prevent a slide into dementia, near-blindness, and misery. When he said, “I’m living too long,” mother and daughter faced wrenching moral questions. Where is the line between saving a life and prolonging a dying? When do you say to a doctor, “Let my loved one go?”

When doctors refused to disable the pacemaker, condemning her father to a lingering death, Butler set out to understand why. Her quest had barely begun when her mother, faced with her own grave illness, rebelled against her doctors, refused open-heart surgery, and met death the old-fashioned way: head-on.

Part memoir, part medical history, and part spiritual guide, Knocking on Heaven’s Door is a map through the labyrinth of a broken medical system. Technological medicine, obsessed with maximum longevity, is creating more suffering than it prevents. Butler chronicles the rise of Slow Medicine, a movement bent on reclaiming the “Good Deaths” our ancestors prized. In families, hospitals, and the public sphere, this visionary memoir isinspiring the difficult conversations we must have to light the path to a better way of death.

“A lyrical meditation written with extraordinary beauty and sensitivity” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Cancer Death & Dying Grief & Loss Medicine & Health Care Industry Personal Development Physical Illness & Disease Sociology Yaşlanan Ebeveyn Tıp Samimi Sağlık Sağlık Hizmetleri Demans
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
Tüm yıldızlar
En alakalı
I found this book was wonderful and painful to listen to. I do live in England, with the wonderful NHS still in place - just, I’m guessing - but here too, I have experienced fast and slow medicine being applied with elderly, dying family members. It makes a tremendous, lasting difference to those left behind, I think, if we feel we have stood up for those who once had our back when they need us because they are disabled and/or dying (even if they weren’t very good at having our back, it matters).

Thought provoking, heart rending and encouraging

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.