are killing them. This book speaks for the dying in a way they are unable to speak for themselves. It’s disturbing; but then so is all education. I’d say this book is indispensable for all people who are living in the presence of someone else’s gradual death.
— Gurney Norman
What Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring did for pesticides, this book did for the subject of death. Unlike Carson’s book, it hasn’t dated a line, although the author maybe has.