Ira Byock Dying Well Summary

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The time of life we call dying is an extremely difficult part of the life cycle, but a normal part," says palliative-care physician Ira Byock, author of Dying Well. "The nature of it isn't medical, it's experiential." My grandfather had stage 4 lung cancer with metastatic to liver . Only palliative care advised by doctors. He was an strong personality .He loved all his grand kids too much. The day before he died he asked all his kids and grandkids should to stay with him. My brother supposed to write his final exam the next day but he said to night stayed with him. Whenever he had severe pain pharmacist , she was our neighbor came and give pain killer injections.Around midnight my grandfather was in severe pain we called pharmacist for injection.