Courageous and inspiring memoir of a physician confronted daily with death, defined as the largest and uncomfortable life event. The author presents a critical and provocative of the western way of living with death, heirs waiting impatiently relatives asking the impossible, patients unable to take responsibility for life. Offered as an alternative Keizer conscious confrontation with death, humane treatment for those affected and for doctors, a less complacent. The stories that make up the work are straightforward and direct, show specific situations and have a healthy real experiences with kindness. This is a critical, bitter, ironic and liberating at the same time.