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Death Interrupted

How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die

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Death Interrupted

Auteur(s): Blair Bigham
Narrateur(s): Robert Lee
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Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive. In this new era, most organs can be kept from dying almost indefinitely by machines. But this unprecedented shift in end-of-life care has created a major crisis. In the widening grey zone between life and death, doctors fight with doctors, families feel pressured to make tough decisions about their loved ones and lawyers are left to argue life-and-death cases in the courts. Meanwhile, intensive care patients are caught in purgatory, attached to machines and unable to speak for themselves.

In Death Interrupted, Dr Blair Bigham seeks to help listeners understand the options facing them at the end of their lives. Through conversations with end-of-life professionals - including ethicists, social workers and nurses and doctors who practise palliative care—and observations from his own time working in ambulances, emergency rooms and the ICU, Bigham exposes the tensions inherent in this new era of dying and answers the tough questions facing us all. Because now, for the first time in human history, we may be able to choose how our own story ends.

©2022 Dr Blair Bigham. Published by arrangement with House of Anansi Press, Toronto, Canada (P)2022 Bolinda Publishing Développement personnel Médecine et secteur de la santé Perte et deuil Relations Sociologie Médecine Soins de santé
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As an ICU nurse I am faced with this dilemma every time I go to work. It was hard to articulate how I was feeling as no one truly understands unless you work in the field and this book hit all of the main points, and then some! I certainly learned a lot from this book and I believe it will make me a better medical professional for it. It certainly was cathartic to read and I recommend this for all medical professionals.

Information I really needed to hear!

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This is the topic that creates the most moral distress for myself at work. I have seen how technology makes people suffer a prolong death creating its own purgatory.
Death is the only certainty in life, but talking to your family about what is an acceptable quality of life for you, will help everyone make hard decisions when you cannot, and allow them to find comfort through the devistation.
Thanks Dr. Bigham for putting into words the ethical dilemma medical professionals like myself deal with constantly and showing the big picture, that technology can only go so far.
I highly enjoyed the read and suggest it to anyone.

Wow, everyone needs to read this!

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Everyone needs to read this book! An excellent read that addresses the intersectionality of medicine, death, religion, ethics and society.

Everyone needs to read this book!

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You know when you come across a book that rings so true to shake your head in agreement? Every page! I learned so much about the death dilemma that I didn't know I was having in my own work. Thank you for teaching me about how the debate over quality or quantity of life may have happened. Thank you for making me think about my questions differently and "turning them on their head". There is room for both saving lives and dying with dignity in our society. Articulating how much I enjoyed this book with all it's complexities and margins is difficult, You really have to read it. It's not an uncomfortable way to consider death, and is so far from offensive. This is written in only a way Blair could do it. The only critique I have is the narrator. Clearly not a medical person. Pronunciation of medical terms, and spelling out ECMO and PEG was a little frustrating, but I got over it quickly.

Great Read

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I have always been a believer that if a person is in a state of ill health from where there is no hope of returning to good health, they and they alone has the right to a palliative pain-free and peaceful death.

I needed to hear this book

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Well written, a lot of information and thought and caring about planning death, a reality for all of us.

Must read if interested in last moments on earth

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I’m a palliative care nurse and absolutely loved this book. I found myself saying “yes!” Out loud while listening. Wish he had other books!

Amazing

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I’ve been an ICU nurse for many years, I’m 6 different hospitals and two counties
The author was able to capture many of the complexities around the dilemma in allowing people to die in these environments that offer extraordinary life extending measures, but often at the expense of the dignity of the patient
We absolutely need to get comfortable with speaking about death in our families, our places of work and in our primary care offices, so that the decision to “pull the plug’ ( if only there was one plug!!) is not left to a grieving family who believe they need to make this decision
The author however missed the opportunity to Garner the lived experience of the intensive care unit nurse who is at that patient’s bedside 24 hours a day - we journey with the patient and family and discuss so many of the challenges around this topic
My biggest critique is that the author became too wrapped up in his own ego, and those of his medical colleagues, and failed to recognize that he was very bias towards patients and families who hold religious traditions and beliefs. We seem to be all put into one category of ‘religious people’ his physician colleague, who practised MAID stated that people who are religious don’t feel they have any control. Therefore they’re probably going to be in ICU and choose extraordinary measures. The gigantic gross generalization was a palling I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t categorize all Black people as having a common response, or a common way of thinking unfortunately, it’s far more complex. You missed an opportunity here -would’ve been nice for you to explore that with more integrity

Memento Moro

Good window into everyday death dilemmas especially in modern ICUs but he missed the mark on unbiased analysis

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