How to Approach the End of Life

Author: (Japanese) Moriharu Shigeharu / Meng Jian
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Publishing Date: 2004-05-01
Features: A 93-year-old practicing physician who writes about a healthy life through his lifelong experiences. In Japan, where the average life expectancy is the longest in the world, he has created a miracle in book sales. This book explores how he faces death from a medical and nursing perspective, as well as how he retraces life from death, delving into the research and pursuit of end-of-life care. It specifically introduces the spirit of hospice care medicine. The content of the book is collected from lectures given from 1979 to 1985 over the past 7 years at Christian gatherings, universities, Buddhist universities, as well as seminars for nurses, physician conferences, or "Death Clinical Research Studies." This book is a compilation of my explorations and research on the issue of life's end from medical, nursing, and religious perspectives. The content aimed at professional medical personnel is written in a popular and accessible language to be understood by ordinary people interested in the topic of life and death.