Dying Well: Our Journey of Love and Loss
by Susan Ducharme Hoben
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Pub Date Mar 17 2018 | Archive Date Apr 28 2018
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Description
Dying Well is an inspiring love story telling of how a man celebrated life while facing his death with grace and dignity. His widow guides you through decisions made and actions taken on their nine-month journey from diagnosis through celebrations and goodbyes, to a peaceful death free of fear and regret. She shares lessons learned as their family came to terms with her husband's impending death and found ways to make this last stage of his life as loving and joyous as possible. This uplifting end-of-life story offers a thought-provoking perspective on dying, one that may help you and those you love achieve what's most important at the end of your lives.
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Advance Praise
"Dying Well is not about illness, but about embracing reality at the end of life and making the necessary decisions that honor a life welllived. Sue Hoben takes us along with her and her husband, Bruce, on this last journey together as a couple after he has a terminaldiagnosis. They approach this transition the same way they approached all of life's challenges--with heart and humor shaped by their deeplove and respect."
Judy L. Mandel
NewYork Times best-selling author of Replacement Child: A Memoir
"Dying Well's account is a mix of love, sorrow, and practicality that is at the heart of what we, as a society, need to do to more normalize aprocess that modern medicine has tried so hard to shield us from."
AdamR. Silverman MD, FACP
VicePresident, Population Health, Saint Francis Health Care Partners
Co-Chair, Care Decisions Connecticut
"This is a love story, but it is also an account of successful navigation of a complex medical system. Take a box of tissues and prepare tobe touched and to learn many lessons that will serve you well when you or a member of your family is seriously ill or fatally ill anddying. Our society pushes death under the rug. The courage of Sue and Bruce Hoben includes a refusal to do so."
HenrySchneiderman MD, MACP
Section Chief, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, SaintFrancis Hospital and Medical Center/Trinity Health of New England
Professor of Medicine, UConn Health Center
Professor of Medicine, Quinnipiac University Schoolof Medicine
Clinical Professor, Nursing, Yale University
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About the Author:
Susan Ducharme Hoben is a former executive consultant with IBM's Strategy and Change Consulting practice. She put her mathematics degree from Cornell Universityand graduate studies at Georgia Institute of Technology to good use in a thirty-five year career in information technology that began with systems engineering with IBM andended with consulting. Upon retirement, Sue founded a travel journal about luxury barging in Europe.
After a lifetime of watching people die, and just as importantly, watching people live, Sue feels passionately that we Americans do not die well, taking a terrible toll on us,emotionally and financially. She hopes that her experience with an uplifting end-of life journey can contribute a valuable perspective to the growing interest in exploring how we die.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780999749807 |
| PRICE | $21.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Janice B, Reviewer
A truly excellent read, this book is well-written and very moving. It is as much a love story for life as it is a testament to a good death. When the author's husband receives his terminal cancer diagnosis, they along with extended family and friends truly make his "end days" (months) a positive experience. I enjoyed this book very much.
My thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review.
Tap The Line O, Media/Journalist
Plato, the ancient Greek sage, famously said that life is nothing more than a study on the phenomenon of death. Taking this into consideration, this wonderful and moving book by Susan Ducharme Hobenok tries a philosophical approach to death as it describes the actions of a man who is diagnosed with cancer and finds himself confronted with the certitude of a prompt demise. The writer's narration and descriptions are real as she was the spouse of the deceased and this fact engages further the reader in terms of emotion and completes a truly fascinating reading experience. This is a book that should be read by all as it concerns each and every one of us.
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