Dying Well: Our Journey of Love and Loss
Dying Well is an inspiring love story telling of how a man celebrated life while facing his death with grace and dignity. His widow guides you through decisions made and actions taken on their nine-month journey from diagnosis through celebrations and goodbyes, to a peaceful death free of fear and regret. She shares lessons learned as their family came to terms with her husband's impending death and found ways to make this last stage of his life as loving and joyous as possible. This uplifting end-of-life story offers a thought-provoking perspective on dying, one that may help you and those you love achieve what's most important at the end of your lives.
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"Dying Well's account is a mix of love, sorrow, and practicality that is at the heart of what we, as a society, need to do to more normalize a process that modern medicine has tried so hard to shield us from."
Adam R. Silverman MD, FACP, Vice President, Population Health, Saint Francis Health Care Partners; Co-Chair, Care Decisions Connecticut
"Dying Well is not about illness, but about embracing reality at the end of life and making the necessary decisions that honor a life well lived. Sue Hoben takes us along with her and her husband, Bruce, on this last journey together as a couple after he has a terminal diagnosis. They approach this transition the same way they approached all of life's challenges--with heart and humor shaped by their deep love and respect."
Judy L. Mandel, New York Times best-selling author of Replacement Child: A Memoir
"In Sue Hoben's clear-eyed, incisive memoir, the reader will find much more than an emotional experience. This is a love story, but it is also an account of successful navigation of a complex medical system. Take a box of tissues and prepare to be touched and to learn many lessons that will serve you well when you or a member of your family is seriously ill, or fatally ill and dying. Our society pushes death under the rug. The courage of Sue and Bruce Hoben includes a refusal to do so, an open approach to this tough situation that eventuated in the greatest of gifts to those who loved Bruce, and a major fulfillment of the arc and nature of Bruce's remarkable embrace of the last part of his life, that harvested what he had planted for all the decades before."
Henry Schneiderman MD, MACP, Section Chief, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center/Trinity Health of New England; Professor of Medicine, UConn Health Center; Professor of Medicine, Quinnipiac University School of Medicine; Clinical Professor, Nursing, Yale University
