In a lot of ways I would have liked MORE information. As it is, this book can be summed up thusly: humans are obligate aerobes. So, if something doesn’t get O2 for any reason, the result is death.

His best parts of the book (which is riddled with less good parts in which he advocates his POVs) are his personal family stories. Now, THAT’S the book he should write. How his grandmother died, his mother, his brother—and how this affected him, and how it changed his doctoring, and how do you make real life decisions that acknowledge the inevitability of death that isn’t always pretty? Tell it, describe it for us, don’t preach to us.

Still, very much a book to be read because really, you ARE gonna die. Deal with it.

This book is really heavy. A lot of medical terms and it also scares the crap out of you, because death is not going to be a nice experience.

This book is all about facing your own mortality. Read this book, and you will understand two things: 1. You are going to die, and 2. It won’t be pretty.