It's a very good book, and if I were going to make a recommendation for a book from the past, the book would definitely be on the recommendation list and very high. This book is suitable for everyone of every age, the author discusses aging and death with a professional and humanistic attitude, the case is rich and covers different perspectives such as doctors, friends, relatives, sons, etc., and it is very good and rare from various dimensions such as professionalism, readability, content extensiveness and emotional integration.
If I had to comment, I would send my first naked and unhesitating recommendation in my years of writing a book review: buy it, don't miss it!
<h1>Read the background</h1>
To be honest, this book has been lying on my shelf for a long time, and just as we all think we're young and don't want to touch topics like aging and death, my eyes touch the book dozens of times, and dozens of times I cross it to see something else.
My thinking is gradually changing: thinking about the long term is not deliberately ignoring the end, the more you want a high quality of life and survival, the more you want to plan far, the more you have to understand the hidden dangers faced at each stage, and what is the best arrangement.
I am not used to going with the flow, on the one hand, I must respect the general trend, on the other hand, I also strive to do my best, in the background of the determined destiny, as far as possible out of the end I like, and then accept it calmly.
The so-called obedience to the destiny of heaven is like this, but the focus is always on the first half of the sentence.
Since you want to know the end of your life, you want to know what coping strategies you have, which direction you are pointing to, and what trade-offs you need to make. So, is this book enough to answer these questions?
The answer is: very qualified!
Before reading this book, I even resisted this topic; by the middle chapter, I was deeply impressed with the author, and I was extremely glad that I had purchased the book; when I read the last two chapters, my eyes were even a little hot: in the downtown area, I opened my iPad to read and take notes as I do now, everything around me had nothing to do with me, and the buddies in front of me on the right frequently glanced over, probably because my expression was too solemn and solemn, as if I had encountered some insurmountable pain - in fact, it was only because I was too devoted.
By now, I can't say that I wrote this book review with a very calm and objective attitude, this book review will be more or less with an idol plot, in some aspects of the evaluation almost touted, completely lost due restraint - but these are different from the previous evaluation style, enough to prove the weight of the book, right?
<h1>Author Ge Wentai</h1>
The author, Wentai Ge, a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, the director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Patient Safety Challenge Program, and a consultant to the Clinton and Obama Democratic administrations.
However, identity can only prove heavyweight and authority, and has nothing to do with my recommendation of this book (in fact, I did not pay attention to it when I read the author's introduction, and I deliberately turned it back to read it after reading two chapters). I recommend this book and this author because he is also a best-selling author with his column in the magazine The New Yorker.
There's a lot more to it about: he's a descendant of Indian immigrants, and both parents are doctors. In addition to his MD, he also received degrees in philosophy, politics, economics, and public health.
Professional exquisite, involved in a wide range of writing, beautiful writing, but also a deep humanistic care, the existence of such a person is the wealth of the whole society, if such a person is willing to honor and lower the nobility to leave a little text, it can be said that it is like a treasure, worth reading carefully, because no matter from the professional, ideological, literary aspects, are excellent enough to hold the altar: you will feel that you can meet this book is absolutely lucky, and the time spent on this book is absolutely worth it.
<h1>This book is introduced</h1>
This is a book on aging and death written by a very authoritative medical professor based on his own observations and experiences, and the best interpretation of this topic I have ever seen (not one of them).
There are four reasons to recommend.
Professional people do professional things, this book belongs to medical experts to talk about the topic of aging and death, this is one of them; this professional people did not have the slightest confusion when writing this book, spent more than ten years of careful observation, immersed in research, so that the book cases and comparisons are very rich and logical rigorous, knowledge intensive, this is the second; in addition to the professional identity, the author in politics, philosophy, literature is widely involved, so that the content is deep, readable is very strong, this is the third; the fourth point is the most important, The author really integrates his own emotions to write, the study case also includes his friends, relatives, any high-ranking research is not worth the experience of true feelings, when your relatives leave you, you are studying aging and death, studying the various possibilities of the end of life, and now, you want to really experience this choice as the closest person and prepare to say goodbye - this is cruel? Is it comfort? Is it a blessing? Is it hugely dazed and helpless? Or is it so calm that it's even a little incredible? Will you suddenly have anachronistic humor? Or is it a serious discussion, showing the truest self in front of the reader, and letting them analyze and interpret it?
Thanks to the author, thanks to the professionalism, seriousness, depth, and authenticity of this book, with one of these points, I will appreciate this book very much, and with four points, I can only express my respect for the author with the same inappropriate adoration.
<h1>Synopsis</h1>
I was ready to finish, but I suddenly remembered that I hadn't written anything yet...
This book discusses the various possibilities for the end of life, as well as the various coping strategies that can be chosen when the end is approaching, and their respective pros and cons. The author does not evaluate the right and wrong of each, but more of a real result, and then gives the choice to everyone, respecting any choice they make.
There is no right or wrong, everyone has the right to choose their own, and it is all right.
Obviously, China has not yet developed to this stage, nursing homes, hospice services, palliative care... The author did not write a praise, but a harsh and profound criticism, and in the same way, I wrote this book review not to criticize, but to rejoice: we have always felt the stones to cross the river, fortunate that there are still stones to touch, and there is no need to pay a huge price of life to grope, which has to be said to be a kind of luck.
<h1>Reflections on life and death</h1>
Death is a topic that every living person cannot avoid, and as we age, farewell will gradually become commonplace. Whether it is acceptance or not, in the end you will accept, get used to, and even feel numb, until you come to the end of the line.
High life is a gift from heaven, but in fact, the best ending is to end without illness. As we live longer, we end up with more and more troubles: some diseases are born for many years, and so are the pain, and so are the troubles. How to maintain dignity, how to face trouble, how to avoid falling, how to resist unknown and huge risks?
As an expert professor, but also a doctor, the author has a deep compassion, humane spirit and humanistic feelings, from the doctor, friends, relatives, sons and other different perspectives, rethinking medicine, disease, old age and death, this real record of switching between different identities, enough to let us look at death as a bystander, face it, understand it, gradually stop fearing, and slowly accept it.
Then close the book and be glad you can still do long-term planning and thinking to continue to live a better life.
Above, highly recommended, happy book change ~