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A review by arletteandbooks
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
4.0
4.5 stars ✨
Super insightful!
Death doesn’t scare me too much but the actual dying part is terrifying. Aging and sickness is scary to think about when you visualize yourself or your loved ones slowly losing their autonomy.
This book urges you to reflect your true wants and what you consider to be a life worth living. It’s important to have these tough conversations ahead of time as an ending is inevitable.
The author (a doctor) provided very helpful insight into the role that medicine has played in how we care for the elderly and ill, and how this care has focused so much on the physical, that it has fallen short in caring for the emotional and mental wellbeing of this group.
I would recommend this book to everyone, including those who prefer reading fiction. Everybody dies. We may not know when though, so it’s better to think about these things, however uncomfortable it may be, in advance.
Super insightful!
Death doesn’t scare me too much but the actual dying part is terrifying. Aging and sickness is scary to think about when you visualize yourself or your loved ones slowly losing their autonomy.
This book urges you to reflect your true wants and what you consider to be a life worth living. It’s important to have these tough conversations ahead of time as an ending is inevitable.
The author (a doctor) provided very helpful insight into the role that medicine has played in how we care for the elderly and ill, and how this care has focused so much on the physical, that it has fallen short in caring for the emotional and mental wellbeing of this group.
I would recommend this book to everyone, including those who prefer reading fiction. Everybody dies. We may not know when though, so it’s better to think about these things, however uncomfortable it may be, in advance.