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Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

By Stephen Jenkinson

Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul Death & Mourning

Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

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A fierce, lyrical manifesto that dares readers to face death without sentimentality—and reveals dying well as one of the deepest acts of living, loving, and human responsibility. Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the page and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well. Die Wise is for those who will fail to live forever. Dying well, Jenkinson writes, is a right and responsibility of everyone. It is not a lifestyle option. It is a moral, political, and spiritual obligation each person owes their ancestors and their heirs. Die Wise dreams such a dream, and plots such an uprising. How we die, how we care for dying people, and how we carry our dead: this work makes our capacity for a village-mindedness, or breaks it. Table of Contents The Ordeal of a Managed Death Stealing Meaning from Dying The Tyrant Hope The Quality of Life Yes, But Not Like This The Work So Who Are the Dying to You? Dying Facing Home What Dying Asks of Us All Kids Ah, My Friend the Enemy
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2015-03-17
Publication Date:
2015-03-17
Publisher:
North Atlantic Books
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1583949739
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
493 g
Height:
22.9 cm
Width:
15.2 cm
Thickness:
2.5 cm
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