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Author: Sherwin B Nuland
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 9780679742449
Size: 70.12 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 1995-01-15
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF How We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity. "It's impossible to read How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James Gleick

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Author: Sherwin B Nuland
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407074687
Size: 35.85 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2010-11-16
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF How We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What happens to us as we die? Discover the answers in this exclusive 25th anniversary edition of Sherwin B Nuland’s seminal book With a foreword by Paul Kalanithi, bestselling author of When Breath Becomes Air. There are many books intended to help people deal with the trauma of bereavement, but few which explore the reality of death itself. Sherwin B. Nuland - with over thirty years' experience as a surgeon - explains in detail the processes which take place in the body and strips away many illusions about death. The result is a unique and compelling book, addressing the one final fact that all of us must confront. 'I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here' James Gleick, author of Chaos

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Book Detail:
Author: Seamus O'Mahony
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125011280X
Size: 56.91 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-07-25
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Way We Die Now eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors, and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are unlikely to see even their family doctor in their final hours, robbed of their dignity and fed through a tube after a long series of excessive and hopeless medical interventions. This is the starting point of Seamus O’Mahony’s The Way We Die Now, a thoughtful, moving and unforgettable book on the western way of death. Dying has never been more public, with celebrities writing detailed memoirs of their illness, but in private we have done our best to banish all thought of dying and made a good death increasingly difficult to achieve.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sam Parnia, M.D.
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 9781401933548
Size: 53.89 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2007-01-01
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF What Happens When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Dr. Sam Parnia faces death every day. Through his work as a critical-care doctor in a hospital emergency room, he became very interested in some of his patients’ accounts of the experiences that they had while clinically dead. He started to collect these stories and read all the latest research on the subject, and then he conducted his own experiments. That work has culminated in this extraordinary book, which picks up where Raymond Moody’s Life After Life left off. Written in a scientific, balanced, and engaging style, this is powerful and compelling reading. This fascinating and controversial book will change the way you look at death and dying.

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Author: Prof. Cedric Mims
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466883855
Size: 20.95 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2014-10-21
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An unusually comprehensive study of death as both a social and scientific phenomenon, When We Die is as frank as it is informed. This far-reaching discussion considers mortality from the personal and the universal perspective, generously citing past and present poets and physicians from a diverse and telling range of traditions. Mims, who for two decades served as Professor of Microbiology at London's Guys Hospital, brings a humane, inquisitive, and learned sensibility to his topic. "This book is a light-hearted but wide-ranging survey of death, the causes of death, and the disposal of corpses," writes Mims. "It tells why we die and how we die, and what happens to the dead body and its bits and pieces. It describes the ways corpses are dealt with in different religions and in different parts of the world; the methods for preserving bodies; and the ways—fascinating in their diversity—in which corpses or parts of corpses are used and abused." The volume also explores such crucial death-based notions as the afterlife, the soul, and the prospect of immortality. By way of the book's main focus, Mims continues: "We should take a more matter-of-fact view of death (and) accept it and talk about it more than we do—as we have done with the once taboo subject of sex." This is a work that any student of social anthropology will find equally enlightening and essential.

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Book Detail:
Author: Karla Erickson
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781439908242
Size: 19.24 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2013-09-27
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF How We Die Now eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. As we live longer and die slower and differently than our ancestors, we have come to rely more and more on end-of-life caregivers. These workers navigate a changing landscape of old age and death that many of us have little preparation to encounter. How We Die Now is an absorbing and sensitive investigation of end-of-life issues from the perspectives of patients, relatives, medical professionals, and support staff. Karla Erickson immersed herself in the daily life of workers and elders in a Midwestern community for over two years to explore important questions around the theme of “how we die now.” She moves readers through and beyond the many fears that attend the social condition of old age and reveals the pleasures of living longer and the costs of slower, sometimes senseless ways of dying. For all of us who are grappling with the “elder boom,” How We Die Now offers new ways of thinking about our longer lives.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lewis Wolpert
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039329272X
Size: 57.80 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2011-01-24
Category: Science
Language: en
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Download PDF How We Live And Why We Die The Secret Lives Of Cells eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Acclaimed biologist Lewis Wolpert eloquently narrates the basics of human life through the lens of its smallest component: the cell. Everything about our existence-movement and memory, imagination and reproduction, birth, and ultimately death-is governed by our cells. They are the basis of all life in the universe, from bacteria to the most complex animals. In the tradition of the classic Lives of a Cell, but with the benefit of the latest research, Lewis Wolpert demonstrates how human life grows from a single cell into a body, an incredibly complex society of billions of cells. Wolpert goes on to examine the science behind topics that are much discussed but rarely understood—stem-cell research, cloning, DNA, cancer—and explains how all life on earth evolved from just one cell. Lively and passionate, this is an accessible guide to understanding the human body and life itself.

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Book Detail:
Author: Christopher Brett-Bailey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783196963
Size: 78.26 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2014-10-24
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF This Is How We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. a motor-mouthed collage of spoken word and storytelling. tales of paranoia, young love and ultra-violence... from the desk of christopher brett bailey comes a spiralling odyssey of pitch-black humour and nightmarish prose. THIS IS HOW WE DIE is a prime slice of surrealist trash, an Americana death trip and a dizzying exorcism for a world convinced it is dying... ‘Is this actually how we die? Driven at disorientingly high speed through the blazing landscape of our own riot-torn hearts, while the radio blares adverts for impossible products conceived in the agonizing heat of capitalism’s terminal inferno? Christopher Brett Bailey auctions off everything we have and everything we think we know to the lowest bidder, leaving us stripped and spent and blissed out and beaten by language, that treacherous stuff we had thought was our friend. No, there ain’t no sanity clause: but I’d trust Bailey with my life, and if this is how we die, you know, it’s really not such a bad way to go.’ Chris Goode

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas G. Long
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0898692334
Size: 55.18 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-08-17
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF What Happens When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A straightforward treatment of the only existential issue that matters from the Christian perspective. In What Happens When We Die? Tom Long provides information about the promises and convictions of the Christian gospel concerning death and life after death. He surveys in simple terms the major themes surrounding death, dying, and hope for an afterlife.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606325561
Size: 23.99 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1995
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF How We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Presents a meditation and portrait of the experience of dying that elucidates the decisions that can be made to allow each person an understanding of death, as well as his or her own choice of death

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Book Detail:
Author: Norman L. Cantor
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589017139
Size: 34.66 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2010-11-11
Category: Medical
Language: en
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Download PDF After We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What will become of our earthly remains? What happens to our bodies during and after the various forms of cadaver disposal available? Who controls the fate of human remains? What legal and moral constraints apply? Legal scholar Norman Cantor provides a graphic, informative, and entertaining exploration of these questions. After We Die chronicles not only a corpse’s physical state but also its legal and moral status, including what rights, if any, the corpse possesses. In a claim sure to be controversial, Cantor argues that a corpse maintains a “quasi-human status" granting it certain protected rights—both legal and moral. One of a corpse’s purported rights is to have its predecessor’s disposal choices upheld. After We Die reviews unconventional ways in which a person can extend a personal legacy via their corpse’s role in medical education, scientific research, or tissue transplantation. This underlines the importance of leaving instructions directing post-mortem disposal. Another cadaveric right is to be treated with respect and dignity. After We Die outlines the limits that “post-mortem human dignity” poses upon disposal options, particularly the use of a cadaver or its parts in educational or artistic displays. Contemporary illustrations of these complex issues abound. In 2007, the well-publicized death of Anna Nicole Smith highlighted the passions and disputes surrounding the handling of human remains. Similarly, following the 2003 death of baseball great Ted Williams, the family in-fighting and legal proceedings surrounding the corpse’s proposed cryogenic disposal also raised contentious questions about the physical, legal, and ethical issues that emerge after we die. In the tradition of Sherwin Nuland's How We Die, Cantor carefully and sensitively addresses the post-mortem handling of human remains.

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Book Detail:
Author: Linda L. Emanuel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674666542
Size: 65.97 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1998
Category: Assisted suicide
Language: en
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Download PDF Regulating How We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Addressing the subject of euthanasia, medical ethicist Dr. Linda Emanuel assembles testimony from leading experts to provide not only a clear account of the arguments for and against physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia--but also historical, empirical, and legal perspectives on this complex and often heart-rending issue.

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Book Detail:
Author: Fran Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1936740605
Size: 61.97 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2013-10-28
Category: Health & Fitness
Language: en
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Download PDF Changing The Way We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care—nearly 44 percent of all deaths—and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take a broad, penetrating look at the hospice landscape, through gripping stories of real patients, families, and doctors, as well as the corporate giants that increasingly own the market. Changing the Way We Die is a vital resource for anyone who wants to be prepared to face life’s most challenging and universal event. You will learn: — Hospice use is soaring, yet most people come too late to get the full benefits. — With the age tsunami, it becomes even more critical for families and patients to choose end-of-life care wisely. — Hospice at its best is much more than a way to relieve the suffering of dying. It is a way to live.

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Book Detail:
Author: Echo Bodine
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608680363
Size: 37.85 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2013-09-26
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF What Happens When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The success of mega-bestsellers like Proof of Heaven and 90 Minutes in Heaven shows that readers hunger for insight into what happens when we die. But can we know? Are there those who’ve been “there” and back? Echo Bodine is beloved for her down-to-earth wisdom on the decidedly out of this world. In these pages, she shares her lifetime of learning — and personal experience — about the above questions. She offers practical tools for being with the dying (including what not to do), for grieving (through the poignant experience of her own mother’s passing as Bodine was writing this book), and for cultivating clear and inspiring communication with the deceased. Learning what happens when we die turns out to be inspiring, reassuring, and profoundly life changing.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Papandrea
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
ISBN: 1622826396
Size: 67.38 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2019-10-17
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF What Really Happens After We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Here professor of Church history Dr. James Papandrea gathers in one place all that is known about the afterlife — drawn from the teachings of Jesus, the Apostles, the Church Fathers, and the Church’s Magisterium — affording, for the first time ever, a complete, authoritative, detailed portrait of the state of souls after death and the realms we enter. The following are among the many questions he answers: --If, as St. Paul says, “flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God,” how can our bodies enter Heaven? --After death but before the final resurrection, are we simply unconscious? --What is our resurrection like? (And does it differ from Jesus’ Resurrection?) --Are ghosts real? (You’ll be surprised at what the Church Fathers have to say.) --What is the difference between Heaven and Paradise? --Which of our parts will accompany us to Heaven (and which must be left behind)? --In Heaven, do we still eat and drink? --If, as Jesus says, there’s no marrying in heaven, are we still male and female there? --After our resurrection, will we, like Jesus, be able to pass through matter? --And many more fascinating questions answered!

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Book Detail:
Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588367231
Size: 61.26 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2008-05-20
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF The Uncertain Art eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “Life is short, and the Art so long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious; and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and the externals, cooperate.” –attributed to Hippocrates, c. 400 B.C.E. The award-winning author of How We Die and The Art of Aging, venerated physician Sherwin B. Nuland has now written his most thoughtful and engaging book. The Uncertain Art is a superb collection of essays about the vital mix of expertise, intuition, sound judgment, and pure chance that plays a part in a doctor’s practice and life. Drawing from history, the recent past, and his own life, Nuland weaves a tapestry of compelling stories in which doctors have had to make decisions in the face of uncertainty. Topics include the primitive (and sometimes illegal) procedures doctors once practiced with good intentions, such as grave robbing and prescribing cocaine as an anesthetic (which resulted in a physician becoming America’s first cocaine addict); the curious “cures” for irregularity touted by people from the ancient Egyptians to the cereal titan John Harvey Kellogg and bodybuilder Charles Atlas; and healers grappling with today’s complex moral and ethical quandaries, from cloning to gene therapy to the adoption of Eastern practices like acupuncture. Nuland also recounts his most dramatic experiences in a forty-year medical career: the time he was called out of the audience of a Broadway play to help a man having a heart attack (when no other doctor there would respond), and how he formed a profound friendship with an unforgettable–and doomed–heart patient. Behind these inspiring accounts always lie the mysteries of the human body and human nature, the manner in which the ill can will themselves back to health and the odd and essential interactions between a body’s own healing mechanisms and a doctor’s prescriptions. Riveting and wise, amusing and heartrending, The Uncertain Art is Sherwin Nuland’s best work, gems from a man who has spent his professional life acting in the face of ambiguity and sharing what he has learned.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780701166724
Size: 49.43 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1997
Category: Body, Human
Language: en
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Download PDF The Wisdom Of The Body eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Very few of us know much about the machinery and workings of our bodies. In an era when most educated people are up-to-date on such questions as gene research, or the male contraceptive pill, the depth of familiarity with our own organs (their structure and function) is surprisingly thin. Where is your spleen? And what does it do? And so forth. Sherwin Nuland's book explains the basic equipment of our body and shows how the human organism constructs its own strategies for survival. But Nuland goes much further than conventional biology. In writing the book, he became preoccupied by a question: what is the human spirit, and how does the structure and functioning of our physicals body explain it? He argues that the human spirit is as inseparable from the body as the mind is inseperable from the brain and results from the adaptive biological mechanisms that protect our species and perpetuate our existence. Written with the warmth, wit and intelligence that distinguished HOW WE DIE, Nuland's new book will became essential book for anyone who wants to understand how life keeps going.

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Book Detail:
Author: Adam Silvera
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062457810
Size: 80.95 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-09-05
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF They Both Die At The End eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. #1 New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Bustle Best YA Novel * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book * A Book Riot Best Queer Book * A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year * A BookPage Best YA Book of the Year On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day. In the tradition of Before I Fall and If I Stay, They Both Die at the End is a tour de force from acclaimed author Adam Silvera, whose debut, More Happy Than Not, the New York Times called “profound.” Plus don't miss The First to Die at the End: #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera returns to the universe of international phenomenon They Both Die at the End in this prequel. New star-crossed lovers are put to the test on the first day of Death-Cast’s fateful calls.

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Book Detail:
Author: David Dempsey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 44.81 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1975
Category: Death
Language: en
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Download PDF The Way We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Danny Bland
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606996754
Size: 50.80 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2013-09-07
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF In Case We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Danny Bland’s fictional prose novel about a doomed junkie couple is given depth by his first hand experiences in the ’90s grunge rock scene. “It wasn’t the pounding headache or the all too familiar taste of blood in my mouth that woke me that morning, but the stink of cat piss. They all have cats. Cats and bad tattoos and mops of dyed black hair that reek of cigarettes and watermelon Bubblicious.” This debut novel by veteran Seattle musician Danny Bland follows a pair of outsiders who find themselves locked in the palpable, dizzy grunge-rock scene of early-’90s Seattle. Vulnerable to the high relief of heroin addiction, Bland’s characters ― Charlie Hyatt and Carrie Finch ― are unapologetic protagonists whose epiphanies are as blinding as their weaknesses. Finch, 21, beautiful and dangerous, drowns out the voices in her head and the consequences of a misled life with electric guitars, booze and petulant misbehavior. Her single abiding faith takes the form of an unlikely savior ― ’60s psychedelic musician Roky Erikson. At the ripe old age of 28, Hyatt attempts to make sense of the cards he has been dealt: a miserable job in a porn shop, a drug habit he cannot afford and the wildly unstable woman he had chosen to love. Two damaged people can balance a seesaw for a long time, even finding the illusion of safety; but when one gets off unannounced, the other will fall. As Finch finds sobriety, her sanity and her relationship with Hyatt falter until an inevitable event brings the two back together a decade later.

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