Publisher's Synopsis
When the time comes - our appointment, our dark hour - what thoughts will we have? Will we be brave, or merely resigned? Will we even be conscious of the place where we are poised? 'The Last Place on Earth' is about the final moments of our lives: the room, the bed, the smells, the companions, the last faces we see, the last bits of speech we hear, the last thoughts we have, the last memories - the last everything. What are these moments like? Is it possible to look at them without flinching? For one year, Tracy Kidder spent a large part of every day in a nursing home, not as a patient, but as an observe, befriending, eating with, being entertained by 112 different people, all on the verge of death. 'The Last Place on Earth' is his fable-like account of the extraordinary things he discovered 'inside'.
