Lessons on Aging and Dying (Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives)

"Lessons in Aging and Dying: A Poetic Autoethnography captures the experience of being elderly and facing the end of life. The book presents a collection of poems about life's end accompanied with narrative commentary. Organized as seventy-three lessons, they can be read as personal curiosities, momentary realizations, farcical departures, embarrassing fears, therapeutic encounters, experiential truths, hopeful conjectures, and inevitable destinations. This text is particularly suitable for students and researchers in subjects such as relational and family communication, gerontology and end of life care, and performance studies"--