Death Interrupted: How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die

In Death Interrupted, ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first—hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era.

Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive almost indefinitely. But this unprecedented shift in intensive care has created a major crisis. In the widening grey zone between life and death, doctors fight with doctors, families feel pressured to mak...