Things I've learned from dying : a book about life
(Book)

"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. 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."--,Provided by publisher.