Voices of death, is probably the best book I've ever read. Dr. Schneidman presents in this book the timeless subject of death offering us a rutter that enables the reader to understand and demystify the death phenomenon.

A book that teaches the reader the basic processes of dying with dignity for those who have a terminal illness or have a friend or relative or a known person who is facing diseases like cancer or leukemia.

How to face death with dignity, and what everyone should know in order to give the comfort to a dying person.

Dr. Schneidman, in his unique beautifully writing style, presents the concepts of grief, self-mourning, pre-mourning, and mourning. Deaths by suicide, execution and malignancy, offering us "maps" that helps us to avoid the reefs of life and to make this trip a safe one.

The documents, diaries, letters and suicide notes illustrate the thoughts and give us the real picture of the reality of the human mind when facing death, helping us to understand death as a natural and dignifying part of everyone's passage in this world.

If this book could be classified, I would classify it as a Literary Human Patrimony

I highly recommend this book to almost everyone. It should really get more attention!

The writing is thoughtful and interesting, and the subject matter unique. The book follows Barack Obama as he grows up and defines himself and his view of the world, as he finds the community that he wants to count himself a member of. In the end that "community" is really the community of humanity, but this book takes you on Barack's journey.

The author examines his heritage of white, midwesterners on his mother's side and later in the book explores the world of his father, a Kenya of the Luo tribe who came to the U.S. to study. Three parts of the book I found especially well done. First, the evocation of what it was like to be in Barack's head as a young black man with few black role models in his life and the difficult philosophical (internal) conversation of the African-American community defining itself in white America. Second, his work as a community organizer in Chicago really dealt well with the complex problems of declining inner cities. Third, the idealization of his absent father by both himself and his mother and the gradual discovery of the real character of his father and grandfather.

Overall, this book was about his struggle to be true to himself and to figure out what that meant.

I just received this book as a Christmas gift and I can't really say that I'm impressed with it. The recipes sound good, but the instructions aren't that great. I think they could be a lot more descriptive. Also, it doesn't seem to be edited really well, a lot of the phrases are disconnected and make the directions or ingredients hard to understand. Luckily I have "Baking with Julia" so I can get the instructions from that, and use the ingredients from these recipes. All in all, I wouldn't have paid for it, but it's not a totally bad book, but you have to either know what you are supposed to do, or have another book to look it up. I would definately recommend the "Baking With Julia" instead of this one.

There is a good reason this book was initially pulled from a lot of college bookstore shelves upon its release: Our faculty found it to be lacking in areas of specifics and details; areas crucial to the health care industry. My staff and I might receommend this book to first year nursing students as a guide used strictly for overview.