title: Questions and Answers on Death and Dying: A Memoir of Living and Dying
author: Kubler
description: A companion volume to "On Death and Dying", this book consists of the questions that are frequently asked of Dr Kubler-Ross, and her answers. She discusses accepting the end of life, suicide, terminal illness, euthanasia, and how to tell a patient that he or she is critically ill.
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  # James Pethel
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Max Beerbohm
  
  
  
  
  
  I WAS shocked this morning when I saw in my newspaper a paragraph
  
  
  announcing his sudden death. I do not say that the shock was very
  
  
  disagreeable. One reads a newspaper for the sake of news. Had I never
  
  
  met James Pethel, belike I should never have heard of him: and my
  
  
  knowledge of his death, coincident with my knowledge that he had
  
  
  existed, would have meant nothing at all to me. If you learn suddenly
  
  
  that one of your friends is dead, you are wholly distressed. If the death is
  
  
  that of a mere acquaintance whom you have recently seen, you are
  
  
  disconcerted, pricked is your sense of mortality; but you do find great
  
  
  solace in telling other people that you met "the poor fellow" only the
  
  
  other day, and that he was "so full of life and spirits," and that you
  
  
  remember he said--whatever you may remember of his sayings. If the
  
  
  death is that of a mere acquaintance whom y