Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
How We Die
Sherwin B Nuland · 1995
88/100
👍 Worth It
A National Book Award winner that remains one of the most important books ever written about the actual, physical experience of dying — honest, compassionate, and humbling in equal measure. Nuland's surgical expertise combines with real personal loss to produce something that reads as both rigorous medicine and profound humanity. Graphic clinical detail means it is not for every reader, but for those facing mortality in any form, it is exceptional.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety65
substance96
craft92
originality90
accuracy88
hype82
age-fit78
human-eye92
Penny’s verdict88
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