
Review by Julie
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
Surprisingly reassuring on a grim subject
I’m not sure how I’m going to convince you to read this book. Most of you will, understandably, want to look the other way. There are details about dying in Being Mortal that will make you shudder and stories about elderly people’s lives that will make you want to cry. But, for me, this book was an eye-opener and surprisingly reassuring, despite it’s grim subject matter.