Things I've Learned from Dying: A Book About Life
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (746 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00CO7GI9Y |
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| Number of Pages | : | 151 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Powerful, difficult and essential book David Dow lives with death. As a lawyer, he works with inmates on death row in Texas, one of the most hard-core states when it comes to executions. One judge famously turned down an appeal from an inmate whose lawyer slept through a trial ("wasn't he merely dozing?"). Other judges just don't want to know an inmate is o. Bookreporter said A raw, honest book that tempers those qualities with love and tenderness. The premature death of a beloved husband, father and grandfather after a fitful struggle against cancer; the passing of an aged dog; and the execution of a convicted murderer on Texas’s death row on the surface couldn’t be more different events. And yet, as David R. Dow shows in this deeply felt memoir, the. More Than The Morality of Capital Punishment Sammy Life teaches all of us many important lessons if we are paying attention. Sometimes we have to make mistakes in order to learn our lessons. Dow shows us through the deaths of his dog, his father-in-law, and his death row clients about living life. I was expecting it to be primarily about the morality of capital punishm
Louis Post-Dispatch. And regardless of your opinion on the death penalty, he sounds like good company."St. "David R. His observations are unflinching and true. Death is a part of daily routine, and in this remarkable book he takes us to the grave and back."John Grisham"David Dow is a lawyer who writes like an angel."Steve Weinberg, Dallas Morning News"He is a gifted storyteller. Dow's stories are always compelling
We die alone."In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. "Every life is different, but every death is the same. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the form of terminal cancer, and his gentle dog Winona suffers acute liver failure, the author is forced to reconcile with death in a far more personal way, both as a son and as a father.Told through the disparate lenses of the legal battles he's spent a career fighting, and the intimate confrontations with death each family faces at home, THINGS I'VE LEARNED FROM DYING offers a poignant and lyrical account of how illness and loss can ravage a family. We live with others. Full of grace and intelligence, Dow offers readers hope without cliché and reaffirms our basic human needs for acceptance and love by g