How Will They Know If I'm Dead?

Name: How Will They Know If I'm Dead?
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

How Will They Know If I'm Dead?Transcending Disability and Terminal Illness\nAuthor(s): Robert Horn\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138445598, 978-1138445598\nSynopsis\nMost books on terminal illness focus on death and dying. This book is about neither. It doesn't deal with statistics or the medical aspects of a crippling disease, and it isn't written by a celebrity about their amazing recovery. This book is about a real person and a true hero.\nBob Horn, an authority on the Soviet Union and foreign policy in the Third World, a successful author and teacher, an involved husband and father of three in his mid-forties, awoke one day to find his entire world upside down. Diagnosed in 1988 with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), better known as Lou Gerhig's disease, Bob had to deal with the reality that his situation was terminal.\nHow Bob and his family coped and continue to cope or \""battle\"" as Bob prefers to c!