Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End Ali Smith the author of The Year

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Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End Ali Smith the author of The YearAuthor: Atul Gawande ISBN: 9781846685828 Publisher: Profile For most of human history, death was a common, ever present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. So here is a book about the modern experience of mortality about what it's like to get