Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson

Description: A potentially life-changing book for anyone wanting to experience grief and death in a more meaningful way. Grounded in the author's experiences with hundreds of dying people and their families, the book advocates a bold engagement with a part of the human experience that is often more endured than lived. In its own unique way, Die Wise is more about living than dying. DieWisedoes not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to makedyingeasier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working withdyingpeople and their families, StephenJenkinsonplaces death at the center of the page and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. DieWiseteaches the skills ofdying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well.DieWiseis for those who will fail to live forever. Dyingwell,Jenkinsonwrites, 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.DieWisedreams such a dream, and plots such an uprising.How wedie, how we care fordyingpeople, and how we carry our dead- this work makesour capacity fora 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

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