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Author	Yalom, Irvin D., 1931-
Title	A matter of death and life / Irvin D. Yalom & Marilyn Yalom.
Publication Info.	Stanford, California : Redwood Press, [2021]
	©2021

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 11	616.8 Y	IN LIBRARY

Description	xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents	The vital box -- Becoming an invalid -- Awareness of evanescence -- Why don't we move to assisted living? -- Retirement : the precise moment of decision -- Setbacks and renewed hopes -- Staring at the sun, once again -- Whose death is this anyway? -- Facing endings -- Considering physician-assisted suicide -- A tense countdown to Thursday -- A complete surprise -- So now you know -- Death sentence -- Farewell to chemotherapy-and to hope -- From palliative care to hospice -- Hospice care -- A soothing illusion -- French books -- The end approaches -- Death arrives -- The after-death experience -- Life as an independent separate adult -- Home alone -- Sex and grief -- Unreality -- Numbness -- Help from Schopenhauer -- Denial revealed -- Stepping out -- Indecisiveness -- On reading my own work -- Seven advanced lesson on the therapy of grief -- My education continues -- Dear Marilyn.
Subject	Yalom, Irvin D., 1931-
	Yalom, Marilyn -- Health.
	Yalom, Marilyn -- Death and burial.
	Psychiatrists -- United States -- Biography.
	Spouses of cancer patients -- United States -- Biography.
	Multiple myeloma -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
	Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography.
	Women historians -- United States -- Biography.
	Grief.
Added Author	Yalom, Marilyn.
ISBN	9781503613768 (hardcover)
	1503613763 (hardcover)
	9781503627772 (electronic publication)

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