{"id":1162,"date":"2017-09-06T07:35:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/2017\/09\/knocking-on-heavens-door-the-path-to-a-better-way-of-death\/"},"modified":"2018-07-02T07:49:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T11:49:28","slug":"knocking-on-heavens-door-the-path-to-a-better-way-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/knocking-on-heavens-door-the-path-to-a-better-way-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Knocking on Heaven\u2019s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Katy Butler \u2013 Scribner, 2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In this honest mix of memoir and research, Katy Butler shares her family\u2019s experience of illness and death in hopes that we can reclaim caregiving and dying from a broken health system. Butler\u2019s father, Jeffrey, a World War II survivor and academic, suffers a massive stroke, followed by a pacemaker implantation\u2014a hasty decision that will haunt the family for five years as his descent into dementia takes a devastating toll on Butler\u2019s mother\u2019s health. Butler lives across the country and finds herself part of the \u201croll-aboard generation\u201d of adult children who spend years caregiving via plane and phone. When doctors deny her request to turn off the pacemaker, Butler struggles to navigate a health system designed around reimbursement and life-saving measures rather than quality of life and patient-centered care. An instruction manual for creating a good death, Heaven\u2019s Door<\/em> deserves serious attention not only from each of us but the entire US medical community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this honest mix of memoir and research, Katy Butler shares her family\u2019s experience of illness and death in hopes that we can reclaim caregiving and dying from a broken health system.<\/p>\n

Read more Knocking on Heaven\u2019s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death<\/span> ›<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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