Gian Domenico Borasio (born 9 July 1962 in

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specialist of palliative medicine. He is professor of palliative medicine at the

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and head of the Service of Palliative Care of the

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). Sylvie Logean
"Gian Domenico Borasio : « Se préparer à mourir est la meilleure façon d'apprendre à vivre »"
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'', 3 November 2017 (page visited on 5 November 2017).

Publications

;As author * ''Über das Sterben. Was wir wissen. Was wir tun können. Wie wir uns darauf einstellen.'' Beck, Munich 2011 (). * ''Selbstbestimmt sterben. Was es bedeutet. Was uns daran hindert. Wie wir es erreichen können.'' Beck, Munich 2014 (). * ''Mourir. Ce que l'on sait, ce que l'on peut faire, comment s'y préparer'',

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, Lausanne, 2014 (). * ''L'autonomie en fin de vie. Le débat allemand, des pistes pour la Suisse, un enjeu pour tous'',

, Lausanne, 2017 (). ;As editor * With Ingeborg Maria Husemeyer: ''Ernährung bei Schluckstörungen. Eine Sammlung von Rezepten, die das Schlucken erleichtern''. * With Ralf J. Jox, Katja Kühlmeyer: ''Leben im Koma.''

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, Stuttgart 2011. * With Hans-Joachim Heßler, Ralf J. Jox, Christoph Meier: ''Patientenverfügung. Das neue Gesetz in der Praxis.'' Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2012. * With Franz-Joseph Bormann: ''Sterben. Dimensionen eines anthropologischen Grundphänomens.'' De Gruyter, Berlin 2012.

Notes and references

External links

Talk "It's not about dying" (TED, 2014)
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