La mort intime

"How to die? We live in a world that is terrified and turned away from the question. (...) Perhaps the relationship to death has never been so poor that in times of spiritual drought, when men, eager to exist, seem to avoid the mystery. (...) This book is a lesson in life. The light that it gives is more intense than many treatises of wisdom. "Francis Mitterrand" Marie de Hennezel strongly denounces the medicalization that surrounds death. "The Preface Progress of François Mitterand Marie de Hennezel is a clinical psychologist. A pioneer of the development and recognition of palliative care, she worked ten years with the sick before being entrusted with a mission to the Ministry of Health on the issues of the end of life. She received the badges of knight of the Legion of Honor.