The Art of Dying Well: Q&A with Author Katy Butler (part of EOLCNY’s Book & Film Series)

The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own “good death” more likely. This handbook of step by step preparations—practical, communal, physical, and sometimes spiritual—will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it decades, years, or months. Butler explains how to successfully age in place, why to pick a younger doctor and how to have an honest conversation with her, when not to call 911, and how to make your death a sacred rite of passage rather than a medical event.

This down-to-earth manual for living, aging, and dying with meaning and even joy is based on Butler’s own experience caring for aging parents, as well as hundreds of interviews with people who have successfully navigated a fragmented health system and helped their loved ones have good deaths. It also draws on interviews with nationally recognized experts in family medicine, palliative care, geriatrics, oncology, hospice, and other medical specialties.

Join us for a Q&A discussion with Katy Butler. Proceeds from the event will support End of Life Choices New York.

Katy has signed 30 signed copies of her book, available for $25.00/each. A signed copy can be purchased when registering while still available. An unsigned copy of the book is available on Kindle/Audible/paperback through Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and may be available through your local library.