A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

An all-encompassing action plan for the end of life.

When it comes to death, we are all beginners. What we could use is a clear-eyed, bighearted guide to walk us through not just the practical decisions we'll have to make in the coming hours, months, and years, but also how to face our fears and engage with loved ones. Which is why one of the country's leading hospice physicians and an experienced caregiver have teamed up to help us navigate this journey.

A Beginner's Guide to the End begins well before a diagnosis and ends well after the memorial. In these pages, you'll find everything from how to get the most out of a hospital visit to how to adapt our sex life while coping with an illness. There are also lessons for caregivers, like how to close down social media accounts and write a good eulogy.

An honest, surprising, and detail-oriented guide to the most universal of all experiences, A Beginner's Guide to the End is an indispensable ally for the present day and the years ahead.