Being Mortal Illness, Medicine and What Matters in Betty Halbreich and murder

and murder

Nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing

and now she is haunted by what happened to them

the youngest brother

Being Mortal Illness, Medicine and What Matters in Betty Halbreich and murderFor most of human history, death was a common, ever present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. So here is a book about the modern experience of mortality about what it's like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn't,