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One's dying is even more difficult for most of us to talk about with our family and friends than sex. Oddly enough, of the three fundamental human physical passages -- birth, sex, and death -- the first we can't remember, the second we're culturally uncomfortable with, and the third scares the daylights out of us.
Ira Byock, a medical doctor and the president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, has written a book that does much to allay our worst fears about dying. In his Dying Well, he has made us a gift of experience and insight to help us not only come to grips with the realization of imminent death due to terminal illness, but as a guide for learning how to die well. . . .
