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Like so most of us, award-winning writer Katy Butler always assumed her aging parents would experience healthy, productive retirements before dying peacefully at home. Then her father suffered a heart stroke that kept him not capable of easily finishing a sentence or showering without assistance. Her mother was thrust into full-time caregiving, and Katy became one of the 24 million People in america who help care for aging parents. In order to correct a and non - life intimidating center arrhythmia, doctors fitted her father with a pacemaker. The device kept his center beating but does nothing to prevent his glide into dementia, incontinence, near-muteness, and misery. After many years, he asked his better half for help, informing her, "I am living too much time." Mother and princess faced some wrenching moral questions: When does indeed death cease being a curse and become a blessing? Where is the lines between saving life and prolonging a dying? When is the right time to state to a doctor, "Let my loved one go?" When doctors refused to disable the pace-maker, sentencing her father to a protracted and agonizing fatality, Katy attempt to understand why. Her quest possessed barely started when her mother experienced her own health problems, rebelled against her doctors, refused open-heart surgery, and instead achieved fatality head-on. Knocking on Heaven's Door, a innovative mixture of memoir and investigative reporting, is the berry of the Butler family's quest. Using a reporter's skill, a poet's eye, and a daughter's love, Butler explores what happens when our terror of fatality collides with the technical imperatives of modern drugs. Her provocative thesis is that advanced drugs, in its single-minded quest for maximum durability, often creates more suffering than it inhibits. Butler lays bare the tangled web of technology, drugs, and business that modern dying has become and chronicles the go up of Slow Medication - a growing movements that promotes care and attention over cure. Knocking on Heaven's Door is a visionary map through the labyrinth of your damaged and morally adrift medical system. It'll inspire the necessary and difficult discussions we all have to have with loved ones as it illuminates a way to a better way of fatality.
