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On Vanishing (Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear)

An essential book for those coping with Alzheimer's and other cognitive disorders that “reframe[s] our understanding of dementia with sensitivity and accuracy . . . to grant better futures to our loved ones and ourselves” (Parul Sehgal, The New York Times).An estimated fifty million people in the world suffer from dementia. Diseases such as Alzheimer's erase parts of one's memory but are also often said to erase the self. People don't simply die from such diseases; they are imagined, in the clichés of our era, as vanishing in plain sight, fading away, or enduring a long goodbye. In On Vanishing, Lynn Casteel Harper, a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, investigates the myths and metaphors surrounding dementia and aging, addressing not only the indignities caused by the condition but also by the rhetoric surrounding it. Harper asks essential questions about the nature of our outsized fear of dementia, the stigma this fear may create, and what it might mean for us all to try to “vanish well.”Weaving together personal stories with theology, history, philosophy, literature, and science, Harper confronts our elemental fears of disappearance and death, drawing on her own experiences with people with dementia both in the American healthcare system and within her own family. In the course of unpacking her own stories and encounters―of leading a prayer group on a dementia unit; of meeting individuals dismissed as “already gone” and finding them still possessed of complex, vital inner lives; of witnessing her grandfather’s final years with Alzheimer’s and discovering her own heightened genetic risk of succumbing to the disease―Harper engages in an exploration of dementia that is unlike anything written before on the subject.A rich and startling work of nonfiction, On Vanishing reveals cognitive change as it truly is, an essential aspect of what it means to be mortal.

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• Hardcover : 199 pages


• Title : On Vanishing (Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear)


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : 1948226286

 

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For fans of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, Eula Biss’s On Immunity, and Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, On Vanishing offers an essential, empathic exploration of dementia, and in the process asks searching questions about what it means to face our own inevitable vanishing. An estimated 50 million people in the world suffer from dementia.
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Expanding our understanding of dementia beyond progressive vacancy and dread, On Vanishing makes room for beauty and hope, and opens a space in which we might start to consider better ways of caring for, and thinking about, our fellow human beings. It is a rich and startling work of nonfiction that reveals cognitive change as an essential aspect of what it means to be mortal.
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On Vanishing is a work aimed at reducing the “outsized dread” of dementia. Lynn Casteel Harper’s work as a chaplain attuned to people with dementia led to these deep reflections on “silence and absence, strangeness and spontaneity, the nonverbal and nonlinear.” I rarely read a book twice but here I made an exception.
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Written by a baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, On Vanishing is a fascinating and unusual take on dementia and how we view it in our modern society. Traditionally, says Lynn Casteel Harper, we talk of people ‘fading away’ or ‘vanishing’ as the disease takes hold.
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A rich and startling work of nonfiction, On Vanishing reveals cognitive change as it truly is, an essential aspect of what it means to be mortal. Catapult, 9781948226288, 240pp. Publication Date: April 14, 2020
On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to
Expanding our understanding of dementia beyond progressive vacancy and dread, On Vanishing makes room for beauty and hope, and opens a space in which we might start to consider better ways of caring for, and thinking about, our fellow human beings. An estimated fifty million people in the world suffer from dementia.
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An estimated 50 million people in the world suffer from dementia. Diseases such as Alzheimer's erase parts of one's memory but are also often said to erase the self. People don't simply die from such diseases; they are imagined, in the clichés of our era, as vanishing in plain sight, fading away, or enduring a long goodbye.
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On Vanishing is a work aimed at reducing the “outsized dread” of dementia. Lynn Casteel Harper’s work as a chaplain attuned to people with dementia led to these deep reflections on “silence and absence, strangeness and spontaneity, the nonverbal and nonlinear.” I rarely read a book twice but here I made an exception.

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