A Way To Die: The Story Of Jane Zorza
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A Way to Die is a deeply moving and profoundly humane account of one young woman's final journey, told with unflinching honesty and extraordinary tenderness by the parents who walked every step of it beside her. Rosemary and Victor Zorza chronicle the death of their daughter Jane from cancer at the age of twenty-five, detailing her experience within the pioneering hospice movement in Britain — a system of care designed not to cure, but to allow a patient to die with dignity, free from pain, and surrounded by compassion. The book stands as both a deeply personal memoir and a passionate argument for a more enlightened approach to death and dying in modern medicine. The Zorzas write with clarity and emotional intelligence, transforming grief into advocacy and bearing witness into purpose. Their account is credited with significantly influencing public and political attitudes toward palliative care in both the United Kingdom and the United States, making it a landmark work in the literature of mortality. For anyone who has sat with loss — or who one day will — this is an essential, quietly transformative read.
Author: Rosemary & Victor Zorza
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A Way to Die is a deeply moving and profoundly humane account of one young woman's final journey, told with unflinching honesty and extraordinary tenderness by the parents who walked every step of it beside her. Rosemary and Victor Zorza chronicle the death of their daughter Jane from cancer at the age of twenty-five, detailing her experience within the pioneering hospice movement in Britain — a system of care designed not to cure, but to allow a patient to die with dignity, free from pain, and surrounded by compassion. The book stands as both a deeply personal memoir and a passionate argument for a more enlightened approach to death and dying in modern medicine. The Zorzas write with clarity and emotional intelligence, transforming grief into advocacy and bearing witness into purpose. Their account is credited with significantly influencing public and political attitudes toward palliative care in both the United Kingdom and the United States, making it a landmark work in the literature of mortality. For anyone who has sat with loss — or who one day will — this is an essential, quietly transformative read.