With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

Name: With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
Rating: 4.964285850524902 (28 reviews)

Kathryn Mannix

Dec 2017 · HarperCollins UK

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28 reviews

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Impossible to read with dry eyes or an unaltered mindset’ Sunday Times

‘Illuminating and beautiful’ Cathy Rentzenbrink

What if everything you thought you knew about death was wrong?

How should we prepare for the facts of dying and saying our goodbyes?

And what if understanding death improved your life?

By turns touching and tragic, funny and wise, With the End in Mind brings together Kathryn Mannix ’ s lifetime of medical experience to tell powerful stories of life and death.

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5.0

28 reviews

Roz Brand

June 4, 2023

Compelling and wonderfully written. I am wiser and reassured about the stages of death by someone who had lived side by side with it everyday. I found relatable experiences in almost every story and I remain astounded by the strange familiarity of them ie how people can misinterpret important news being given by professionals, other present parties to the conversation receiving a different message. This turns out to be something quite common. This helped heal my own pain from past experience. This was a book I needed to read and, I recommend all others with this interest to read.

Unexpected Yu

April 22, 2020

Really helpful and interesting. Should be read by all of us as an educational book to understand life and think thoroughly about our cycle of birth and death as part of Nature and not a taboo. A book of love

Maggie Menhenick

September 20, 2018

I came across the author when she was a guest on the BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C and how she spoke about death was reassuring, knowledgeable and comforting. This book is an easy read due to the author's excellent writing style and surprising wit. I expected to be challenged (I was) and to cry (I did) but not to laugh quite so much! I watched my father draw his last, noisy breaths as a teenager so always felt that the process of dying was loud and probably painful and definitely scary. It's not.

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About the author

Kathryn Mannix has spent her medical career working with people who have incurable, advanced illnesses. Starting in cancer care and changing career to become a pioneer of the new discipline of palliative medicine, she has worked in teams in hospices, hospitals and in patients’ own homes to deliver palliative care, optimising quality of life even as death is approaching. Having qualified as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist in 1993, she started the UK’s (possibly the world’s) first CBT clinic exclusively for palliative care patients, and devised ‘CBT First Aid’ training to enable palliative care colleagues to add new skills to their repertoire for helping patients.

Kathryn has worked with many thousands of dying people, and has found their ability to deal with illness and death both fascinating and inspirational. She believes that a better public awareness about what happens as we die would reduce fear and enable people to discuss their hopes and plans with the people who matter to them.

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