FILE – In this May 28, 1996, file photo, Dr. Sherwin Nuland sits on the desk in his home study in Hamden, Conn. Nuland, the author of 1994 National Book Award winner “How We Die,” has died at age 83. Nuland died of prostate cancer on Monday, March 3, 2014, at his home in Hamden, said his daughter Amelia Nuland, who recalled how he told her he wasn’t ready for death because he loved life. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)