With the End in Mind

Dr Kathryn Mannix

A powerful and emotional book based on a lifetime’s clinical experience, ‘With the End in Mind: How to Live and Die Well’ by Kathryn Mannix offers calm, wise advice on how to face death, live fully, and find a model for hope in dark times.

Using stories gathered over forty plus years of experience in medicine and palliative care, Dr Mannix enables the reader to ‘experience’ and start to understand what happens when people are nearing the end of their lives. It shows the many and varied ways that people, both the dying and those walking alongside them, approach death and dying. Each chapter starts with pertinent observations and questions from Mannix about a particular area of end of life, which she then addresses with the help of these real-life experiences. 

With useful guidance on subjects like ‘last words’ and ‘how to start conversations about dying’, this book is a wonderfully gentle and informative resource. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr Kathryn Mannix spent her medical career working with people with incurable, life-limiting and advanced illnesses. After moving from cancer care she became a pioneer in the new discipline of palliative medicine. Dr Mannix the UK’s first CBT clinic exclusively for palliative care patients, and devised ‘CBT First Aid’ training to enable her colleagues to add new palliative care skills to their repertoire for helping patients.

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