TY - BOOK AU - Worth,Jennifer AU - Hackett,David TI - In the midst of life SN - 9780753827529 (paperback) AV - RT87.T45 W67 2011 U1 - 610.73 22 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Phoenix KW - Worth, Jennifer. KW - Worth, Jennifer, KW - Death KW - Psychological aspects KW - Terminal care KW - Nurses KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Terminally ill KW - Death and dying KW - Nursing KW - Personal narratives KW - Nurses England Biography Juvenile literature KW - Anecdotes KW - Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011 KW - fast KW - Health and Fitness KW - eflch KW - London (England) KW - Social conditions KW - 20th century KW - lcgft N1 - Originally published: London: Weidendeld & Nicolson, 2010; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1956 -- A natural death -- 1953 -- An unnatural death -- A life saved -- Unable to die -- Threescore years and ten -- Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) -- Dr. Cicely Saunders (1918-2005) -- 1957- Dr. Conrad Hyem -- 1963-64 -- The Marie Curie Hospital -- Family involvement -- Forget-me-nots -- The advance directive -- The bloom cupboard -- Social attitudes to deth -- Grief -- 1965 -- Stroke -- A dangerous subject -- A family divided -- Dementia -- Who cares? -- 1968 -- Congestive heart failure -- Open heart resuscitation -- Lazarus -- Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in hospital -- 999 -- 1980 -- Time to go -- 1986 -- Acute heart failure -- 2004-06 -- A good death -- 2007 -- The life force -- 2008 -- Homecoming -- Euthanasia -- 2010 -- Helga -- In the midst of life we are in death we are in death N2 - Jennifer Worth was a nurse, midwife, ward sister and night sister from 1953 until 1973, working mainly in London. Her first passion was - and still is - music, and she is a Fellow of the London College of Music. She taught piano and singing for about twenty-five years and still More...sings in choirs all over England and Europe. She plays her piano (a 1904) Bluthner) daily, and is at present studying the entire keyboard works of J.S. Bach. She has been married for forty-five years and has two daughters and three grandchildren ER -