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With the End in Mind

Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

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With the End in Mind

By: Kathryn Mannix
Narrated by: Elizabeth Carling, Kathryn Mannix
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Impossible to read with dry eyes or an unaltered mindset’ Sunday Times

‘Illuminating and beautiful’ Cathy Rentzenbrink

With the End in Mind is a book for us all: the grieving and bereaved, the ill and the healthy. By turns touching and tragic, funny and wise, it tells powerful human stories of life and death.

Eric, the retired head teacher who even with Motor Neurone Disease gets things done. Sylvie, 19 and diagnosed with leukaemia, sewing a cushion for her mum to hold after she has died. Nelly and Joe, two people enduring loneliness to shield their beloveds from distress.

A powerful and emotional book based on a lifetime’s clinical experience, With the End in Mind offers calm, wise advice on how to face death, live fully and find a model for hope in dark times.

Kathryn Mannix’s With the End in Mind was a Sunday Times bestseller the weeks ending 6 January 2018, 13 January 2018 and 3 February 2018.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2017 Kathryn Mannix (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Grief & Loss Medical Medicine & Health Care Industry Pain Management Personal Development Physical Illness & Disease Professionals & Academics Marriage Medicine Feel-Good Inspiring Heartfelt Health care Thought-Provoking

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My beloved has inoprable cancer. I listened to this book to help me understand what I can do to help us both manage what's ahead. It has helped enormously. I hope I can use my new insights to give my beloved the most meaningful life, my deepest love and my best care in the months ahead. Thank you Katheyn for writing the book. The chosen narrator was excellent and made it easy to listen and be absorbed by every chapter.

A sensitive book on life, love and loss

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I had just suffered the lost of my mother in law when I listened to this. in places that made this book a very tough listen. The author suggests we have forgotten what dying looks like and this was true for us. The author is sensitive and factual the process she describes was our experience. I would like to say thank you to the author - whilst too late to help prepare us it has been useful to make sense of questions we had - like how the Dr knew it was going to happen for instance why did she have a brilliant up day (an absolute gift btw) and the author has explained what maybe the Dr didn't have time too. Respect to her for her choice career.

everyone should listen to this

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I really enjoyed this book. It was uplifting and heartwarming. A great account of how we can all improve our lives through normalising and accepting dying.

A must read for all

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Beautifully written and read. Kathryn M is a doctor in palliative /end of life care and shares in this book stories of many of her patients and their experiences. Her message is that we all need to think and talk about the inevitability of death and our wishes around this and how we would plan to meet it, but it is a book full to the brim of love, kindness, wisdom and life. Written with great sensitivity, a quality she obviously uses to the full with those in her care. Highly recommend.

Moving and humane

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This books deserves seven starts out of five. Scientific and spiritual at the same time.

Marvellous

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a moving, common sense approach, thought provoking. and much appreciated as a carer. helpful and made me understand the process of dying

profound

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I highly recommend this insightful and reassuring book - it is such an important message for us all. Thank you Dr Mannix!

A book for everyone

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As a nurse with an interest in palliative care, I found this audiobook to be both informative and inspiring.
The various stories and their telling have helped me broaden my insight into the specialism I am aiming to enter. But more than this, it has challenged some of my previous notions of communication in palliative care and of dying in general. I would encourage everyone to read this book or listen to this audiobook, as the overarching theme can only help improve and uplift our layman’s understanding of death.
If you are worried about dying, for yourself or for someone else, this book will go a long way to giving you the facts and perspective required to find peace and understanding with the one thing no person can avoid forever.
I am grateful for this audiobook, and for the brilliant author.

And eye opening, soul-enriching delight

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Tears. Laughs. Real life. Humbling.

Dr Kathryn Mannix is an absolute legend in the world of palliative care - but please know you do not have to work in healthcare, or in palliative care to enjoy this book.

It is truly a very real account of looking after those in their final walk of life. Truly amazing.

Would go as far as saying this is my favourite book!

Excellent! You will not want to put it down.

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Some really carefully-chosen anecdotes about those who are going through the processes of dying, sympathetically but sensibly described. Mannix brings up some thought-provoking ideas relating to death, which I found myself contemplating after listening. Well-read and easy to follow.

Thought-provoking on the subject of death

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