How We Die

An international bestseller, Sherwin B. Nuland’s How We Die has come to be regarded as the definitive book about the most universal human concern:  death.


“Powerfully eloquent.... How We Die is a relentlessly frank and graphic description.... surprisingly absorbing.” — The New York Times; “Unforgettable.” — Kirkus Reviews; “Thought provoking and humane.” — Booklist; “The story comes from a sensitive observer...who has seen much, taken much thought, and written it all down with a superior gift for descriptive narrative.” — Washington Post Book World; “Straight-forward, unsparing, yet deeply human.” — Anna Quindlen, The New York Times.


Nuland’s masterful How We Die won a National Book Award and is a modern classic. The e-book edition includes the author's afterword to the paperback edition examining the current state of health care, and our relationship with life as it approaches its end.