Reddit reviews How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter, New Edition
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AOTD: Simon Crichley'a Bowie and Sherwin Nuland's How We Die.
Rabies effects your nervous system as I recall. That usually goes through the blood
However skin is full of tiny capilaries. They can break and not bleed visibly.
This person should see a doctor
I've read rabies described as "a horrible way to die"
Sauce. How we Die
Not a book recommendation, but I really, really recommend watching the documentary Alive Inside. I believe it's still on Netflix? What I learned about music therapy from it has helped me connect very deeply with multiple dementia and Parkinson's patients over the years.
The late, great Oliver Sacks also stars as an expert on it, and he wrote Musicophilia, of which there are a couple of chapters that deal with music & memory. I really enjoyed reading that.
Edit: Found my booklist. Here's a really simple handbook that helps guide you in having difficult conversations with seriously ill patients and their families about the patient's condition. It's aimed primarily at doctors (it was made for oncologists originally), but many of its tenets and suggestions can be applied to any level of caregiver.
Because you're working on a dementia unit, I'd also start familiarizing yourself with death & dying - not just the physiological process, but the ethical and philosophical levels as well (both societal and personal). If you're not familiar with it, working with dying people can be very scary and uncomfortable, and you'll find yourself feeling moral distress because you're mentally still trying to apply curing principles of care to someone who cannot be cured. Once you become more familiar with this stage of life, you're probably going to recognize a lot of aggressive, futile care happening, and THAT's going to become emotionally very difficult for you.
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Really interesting book -- "How We Die." Its a great read anyways, and it may give you a new perspective.
I've never read this book, but I've heard great things about it:
http://www.amazon.com/How-We-Die-Reflections-Chapter/dp/0679742441
> "I'm going to die eventually anyway." Yeah, but you can either die in your sleep peacefully, or have a rapid decline with very large periods of extreme pain and suffering due to, I don't know, having your ribcage cracked open and your heart arteries bypassed.
It'd be nice if it worked that way, but it doesn't.
Last and First Men and Star Maker. Classic Sci-Fi, at its thought provoking best.
Edit to add How We Die. If this doesn't provoke some deep thought, either about how you want your end of life handled, or your loved ones, then you fail at being human.
I'm not able to give a good concise ELI5 answer, but your answer in part will be determined by the way in which one dies. If you want further reading on the topic this book gives a run down of the sequence of events leading to death, broken down by causes of death. (The book is very readable and written with sensitivity).
Highly recommend reading How We Die by Sherwin Nuland.
http://www.amazon.com/How-We-Die-Reflections-Chapter/dp/0679742441
This is a book by a physician about how people die. It is a really good read if you need to come to terms with death. They make a great approach IMHO.
I don't think I'm up to that one right now, but I've put it on my list.
I found this one eye-opening and reassuring - in that I feel like I know better how to understand and control the conditions and circumstances of my own eventual demise.
Great book by Sherwin Nuland MD: How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter.