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Memorial Day and the Cost of Forgetting
As a child, I remember my parents taking me each year to Main Street in the small village of Sherman, New York, for the Memorial Day parade. Elderly men marched in faded pea-green and ash-gray uniforms, rifles resting on their shoulders, but they were not what...
Dancing With the Inevitable: Music, Death, and the Rhythm of Life
We dance to let go—to escape, to express, to answer the irresistible pull of music. Rhythm carries us, beauty disarms us, and for a moment, we surrender to something larger than ourselves. Yet beneath this joy lies a quieter truth: our attraction to rhythm mirrors...
The Writers Who Shaped My Journey Into Fiction
A large part of a writer’s DNA is formed by the books they read. Every story absorbed, every author encountered, leaves an imprint on how we think about language, imagination, and the act of storytelling itself. My own journey through fiction began at a young age and...
Books
Death: An Exploration
Discover Insights about Coping with Life’s Most Feared Mystery
This book will help anyone who is interested in learning more about death, coping with a loss, approaching death, or explaining death to a child. It is an exploratory journey that includes multiple viewpoints, including Steve Jobs’s embrace of his death, Ray Kurzweil’s striving for immortality, and Joseph Campbell’s view of death as the “ornament of life.”
The book looks at death from the perspectives of atheists, Christians, and Tibetan Buddhists, among many others. Interestingly, it considers the often unexplored aspects such as the curious relationship between death and ayahuasca. It is a guidebook, offering insights and comfort on a topic that many find frightening or macabre.
The author grew up with a skeleton in his living room, and surrounded by other symbols of death. His unusual upbringing makes him uniquely qualified to serve as guide. As you join him in discovering more about death, you will find yourself enjoying a fuller life.
