Based on Butler’s experience caring for aging parents and hundreds of interviews with people who have successfully navigated our fragmented health system and helped their loved ones have good deaths, The Art of Dying Well also draws on the expertise of national leaders in family medicine, palliative care, geriatrics, oncology, and hospice. Butler explains things like how to successfully age in place, why to pick a younger doctor and how to have an honest conversation with them, when not to call 911, and how to make your death a sacred rite of passage rather than a medical event. (This book may contain a small, black sharpie mark on the bottom edge, so that it can't be returned to a different wholesaler.)