Death is a day worth living

In Death is a day worth living, Ana Claudia has the courage to deal with a topic that is still taboo. Throughout her professional life, the doctor faced difficulties in being understood, in convincing that the patient deserves attention even when there is no longer any chance of a cure. After all the struggle, Palliative Care now has the status of public policy, receiving the attention from the State that it always dreamed of.

There are many lessons about the art of winning, but what about the art of losing? Nobody wants to talk about it, but the truth is that we spend a lot of time in our lives in great suffering when we lose possessions, people, realities, dreams.

Knowing how to lose is the art of those who managed to fully live what they once won.

In 2012, Ana Claudia Quintana Arantes gave a TED talk that quickly went viral, surpassing the 1.7 million views mark. The last line of the video, “Death is a day worth living”, became the title of the book which, since its release in 2016, has been gaining an increasingly larger audience.

One of the greatest references on Palliative Care in Brazil, the author approaches the topic of finitude from a surprising angle. According to her, what should scare us is not death itself, but the possibility of reaching the end of life without making the most of it, of not using our time the way we would like.

Inverting the perspective of common sense, we are led to rethink our own existence and offer people around us the opportunity to live well until the day we leave. Instead of fear and anguish, we must accept our essence so that the end is just the natural end of a journey.

Completely revised and expanded, this edition is a beautiful ode to life and humanity.