For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi a palliative care doctors breathtaking stories fromyears spent caring for the dying Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before And for the most part that is good news But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death Once a familiar peaceful and gentleif sorrowfultransition death has come to be something from which we shield our eyes as we prefer to fight desperately against it rather than accept its inevitabilityDr Kathryn Mannix has studied and practiced palliative care for thirty years In With the End in Mindshe shares beautifully crafted stories from a lifetime of caring for the dying and makes a compelling case for the therapeutic power of approaching death not with trepidation but with openness clarity and understandingWeaving the details of her own experiences as a caregiver through stories of her patients their families and their