Description: This book "begins well before a diagnosis and ends well after the memorial. In these pages, you'll find everything from how to get the most out of a hospital visit to how to adapt your sex life while coping with an illness. There are also lessons for caregivers, like how to close down social media accounts and write a good eulogy"--Back cover.
Brief description: BJ Miller, MD, is a hospice and palliative medicine physician who has worked in many settings--inpatient, outpatient, hospice facility, and home--and now sees patients and families at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Miller speaks all over the country and beyond on the theme of living well in the face of death. He has been profiled in The New York Times and interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, Tim Ferriss, and Krista Tippett.
Review Quotes: "A Beginner's Guide to the End is honest, funny, luminous, and essential. Full of real-world advice and hard-won insight, it's a practical guide to dying that is actually much more about living."
-- Lucy Kalanithi, author of the epilogue to When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi