A review by ewormuth
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial by Kathryn Mannix

5.0

I'm mystified as to how anyone could give this book a bad review -- maybe the reviewer isn't at a point in their life when this book is necessary, informative, moving, and comforting. I liked it so much that I'm ordering a copy for each woman in my post-retirement group. Mannix offers stories that are not only moving but also enlightening; I love her insight that death is much like birth -- it follows a process, there are helpers, things can be done to make the experience more comfortable and painless, if you choose to have them. I'm going to revise my end-of-life instructions based on some of the stories she told. I greatly appreciate this book.