A People's Guide to the End of Life

This book is about death: how we approach it, how families, and those breathing their last, might deal with it. While the author has been surrounded by death for decades-in the operating rooms, the intensive care unit, the burn unit, in the US, Latin America, and Africa-putting these words to “paper” was the result of the impending death of a friend and colleague, a professor of political science and a fighter for social and economic justice.

The book's rationale is to assist the family of t...