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The \u201cbest guide\u201d out there to maintaining a high quality of life\u2014from active living to final breath\u2014by the New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven\u2019s Door<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Art of Dying Well<\/em> will help you live well as possible for as long as possible and adapt successfully to change.<\/p>\n With groundbreaking insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker Katy Butler shows how to thrive (even if coping with a chronic medical condition), get the best from our fragmented health system, and make your own peaceful, well-supported \u201cgood death\u201d more likely. This handbook of step by step preparations\u2014practical, communal, physical, and spiritual\u2014will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it months, years, or decades.<\/p>\n You will learn how to successfully age in place, to deepen your passions and community connections, to marshall a \u201ctribe\u201d to support you or a seriously ill friend, and to seize the power to make any death a sacred rite of passage rather than a medical event.<\/p>\n This down-to-earth manual for living, aging, and dying with comfort, meaning, and even joy is inspired by the medieval death manual Ars Moriendi, or the Art of Dying. It\u2019s the definitive update for our modern age.<\/p>\n \u201cThe best guidebook I know of for navigating the later stages of life. Simple and practical, but the impact is profound.\u201d \u201cKaty Butler shows how, and I am profoundly grateful.\u201d \u201cA book to devour, discuss, dog-ear, and revisit \u2026 Wise counsel for the final decades of our \u2018wild and precious\u2019 lives.\u201d \u201cLike a wise friend explaining exactly what you need to know about getting what you need from your medical care, including all the insider stuff your doctors and nurses don\u2019t always want to say. I wish all my patients would read this book.\u201d \u201cFilled with deep knowledge, this is a guide for staying as healthy and happy as possible [while staying] medically informed in order to stay in charge of our lives and therefore less afraid of the future. I wish I had read it ten years ago!\u201d \u201cKaty Butler has clear eyes and speaks plainly about complicated decisions. Chock-full of good ideas!\u201d \u201cA brilliant map for \u2026 getting from the health system what you want and need, while avoiding what you don’t. Armed with this superb book, you can take back control of how you live before you die.\u201d A much needed GPS. Warm, wise and straightforward, hugely helpful to anyone\u2014everyone\u2014who will go through the complex journey to the end of life.\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.katybutler.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.katybutler.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.katybutler.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.katybutler.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.katybutler.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.katybutler.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"http:\/\/www.katybutler.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1209\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.katybutler.com\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Reviews<\/h3>\n
\n\u2014Ira Byock,<\/strong> MD, author of Dying Well<\/em> and The Best Care Possible<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2014Barbara Ehrenreich<\/strong>, author of Nickel and Dimed and Natural Causes<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2014Lucy Kalanithi<\/strong>, MD, widow of Paul Kalanithi, and editor of When Breath Becomes Air<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2014Anthony Back,\u00a0<\/strong>MD, Oncologist and Palliative Care physician, University of Washington Medical School.<\/p>\n
\n\u2014Margareta Magnusson<\/strong>, author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2014Sallie Tisdale<\/strong>, author of Advice for Future Corpses<\/p>\n
\n\u2014Diane E. Meier<\/strong>, MD, Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care<\/p>\n
\n\u2014Ellen Goodman<\/strong>, Founder, The Conversation Project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"