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
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