Häftad, Engelska, 2015
Die Wise
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Beskrivning
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
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
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2015-03-17
- Mått: 153 x 228 x 29 mm
- Vikt: 653 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 416
- Förlag: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
- Medarbetare: Martin Shaw
- ISBN: 9781583949733
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3 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5
- 5/5 Mattias L
Stephen Jenkinson är den mest gedigna tänkaren jag stött på. Med störst intellektuella hederlighet och respekt för ämnet och för alla inblandade parter tar han sig an frågan vad döden är och vad det skulle kunna vara i det nordamerikanska samhället. Stephen menar att det är ett dödsfobiskt samhälle och om detta även gäller för Sverige få var och en själv avgöra. Lyssna gärna några av intervjuerna med honom som finns länkade på hans hemsida som ett komplement till boken för att få en känsla för Stephens personlighet och djup.
- 5/5 Jonah
- 5/5 Lena