O'Mahony, Seamus

The way we die now / Seamus O'Mahony. - London : Head Of Zeus, 2016. - xii, 292 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

"O'Mahony argues that modern medicine and society at large have conspired to sanitize death, and that this has led to bizarre modern fantasies about immortality and a self-defeating obsession with controlling the timing and manner of our death, with advance doirectives and assisted suicide." - Dust jacket.

9781784974268 : (hbk.)

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Death--Sociological aspects.
Death--Social aspects.
Terminally ill--Care.
Death--Sociological aspects.

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