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With the End in Mind
- Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Carling, Kathryn Mannix
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Summary
What colour is cancer? Why do some people appear to have made miraculous recoveries? How can you tell when someone is in the final hours of their life? How can we ensure our most vulnerable are treated with the dignity they deserve?
In this unprecedented memoir, a palliative medicine pioneer explores the biggest taboo in our society and the only certainty we all share: death. Kathryn Mannix immortalises the thousands of men and women she has seen off. These unforgettable stories send an urgent message to the living, answering all our questions about the end-of-life process with touching honesty and humanity.
Drawing on four decades of experience studying and practicing palliative care, Mannix shows us what happens when people are approaching the end of their lives: how they cope, how they live, what matters most, how dying evolves, what a deathbed is like and how families react.
Kathryn Mannix's stories, although drawn from her clinical practice, are those of our friends, our family, our partners. We learn about the body language of death through a young mother who raves the night away before falling into a forever slumber. The psychology of death, too, is illuminated, as with the endearing story of Sanjeev, an elderly man admitted to the hospital who is convinced he is on a night train to Delhi where he will meet his parents in the morning. A husband asks the doctor not to tell his wife of the fatality of her condition - the wife later confesses to having kept her husband in the dark about the finality of her illness to preserve him. These meditations tells us everything about the dying and their loved ones.
With the End in Mind is a book for all of us: the grieving and bereaved, ill and healthy. It is also an insight into palliation as a mixture of teamwork with clinical detective work to find the origins of patients' symptoms in order offer the best possible living conditions towards the end. Mannix argues that with planning, honesty and information, death doesn't have to be either painful or terrifying. With at-times funny, poignant and always wise storytelling about how people die, Mannix has written a book of immense power and importance.
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- K. Bailey
- 07-03-19
everyone should listen to this
I had just suffered the lost of my mother in law when I listened to this. in places that made this book a very tough listen. The author suggests we have forgotten what dying looks like and this was true for us. The author is sensitive and factual the process she describes was our experience. I would like to say thank you to the author - whilst too late to help prepare us it has been useful to make sense of questions we had - like how the Dr knew it was going to happen for instance why did she have a brilliant up day (an absolute gift btw) and the author has explained what maybe the Dr didn't have time too. Respect to her for her choice career.
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- Charlotte Reddick
- 02-08-18
A must read for all
I really enjoyed this book. It was uplifting and heartwarming. A great account of how we can all improve our lives through normalising and accepting dying.
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- Jill Desborough
- 07-10-21
Moving and humane
Beautifully written and read. Kathryn M is a doctor in palliative /end of life care and shares in this book stories of many of her patients and their experiences. Her message is that we all need to think and talk about the inevitability of death and our wishes around this and how we would plan to meet it, but it is a book full to the brim of love, kindness, wisdom and life. Written with great sensitivity, a quality she obviously uses to the full with those in her care. Highly recommend.
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- Brenda
- 24-07-21
A sensitive book on life, love and loss
My beloved has inoprable cancer. I listened to this book to help me understand what I can do to help us both manage what's ahead. It has helped enormously. I hope I can use my new insights to give my beloved the most meaningful life, my deepest love and my best care in the months ahead. Thank you Katheyn for writing the book. The chosen narrator was excellent and made it easy to listen and be absorbed by every chapter.
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- salman
- 17-07-19
Marvellous
This books deserves seven starts out of five. Scientific and spiritual at the same time.
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- Diana
- 04-02-21
profound
a moving, common sense approach, thought provoking. and much appreciated as a carer. helpful and made me understand the process of dying
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- Jacqui Barnett
- 02-01-22
A book for everyone
I highly recommend this insightful and reassuring book - it is such an important message for us all. Thank you Dr Mannix!
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- ben
- 27-01-23
And eye opening, soul-enriching delight
As a nurse with an interest in palliative care, I found this audiobook to be both informative and inspiring.
The various stories and their telling have helped me broaden my insight into the specialism I am aiming to enter. But more than this, it has challenged some of my previous notions of communication in palliative care and of dying in general. I would encourage everyone to read this book or listen to this audiobook, as the overarching theme can only help improve and uplift our layman’s understanding of death.
If you are worried about dying, for yourself or for someone else, this book will go a long way to giving you the facts and perspective required to find peace and understanding with the one thing no person can avoid forever.
I am grateful for this audiobook, and for the brilliant author.
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- Emma Smith
- 13-07-23
Excellent! You will not want to put it down.
Tears. Laughs. Real life. Humbling.
Dr Kathryn Mannix is an absolute legend in the world of palliative care - but please know you do not have to work in healthcare, or in palliative care to enjoy this book.
It is truly a very real account of looking after those in their final walk of life. Truly amazing.
Would go as far as saying this is my favourite book!
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- Jamie Barron
- 13-02-23
Thought-provoking on the subject of death
Some really carefully-chosen anecdotes about those who are going through the processes of dying, sympathetically but sensibly described. Mannix brings up some thought-provoking ideas relating to death, which I found myself contemplating after listening. Well-read and easy to follow.
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