How can we live our lives fully up to our last moments and then die well when it is our time to die? Is death a tragedy, or is it a natural aspect of an amazing cycle of ongoing learning?
Healer and writer Carolyn North asks these questions as she assists four friends prepare for their passage, showing us their experiences as they decline physically but emerge spiritually.
Lynn, a naturalist friend who the author first met mid-ocean in the waters around the Galapagos Islands, is diagnosed with cancer at the age of 35.
- Jim, a professor of Botany and editor of a well-used Field Guide for Native Plants, contracts the HIV virus after coming out as a gay man after being married for many years.
- Rosie, a stained-glass artist aged 75, resists dying of cancer until she has completed her last triptych.
- Duncan, an opera singer, and the author's best friend, lives with AIDS for many years before finally succumbing in his late 40s.
This heartfelt book explores how we can learn to accept our own mortality and, in the process, discover what it means to love. Loving we may glimpse a many-dimensioned universe in which life and death are part of the same glorious Whole.
Readers are invited to read an extra chapter, which was left out of the book manuscript by the publisher, called LIFE POST-MORTEM.
In it, an imaginary conversation is held by a dozen dead people who come back for an afternoon to answer the author's questions about what it's like after death. Their words are taken verbatim from several channeled accounts of people 'from the other side' as they spoke through mediums about their experiences. These people include Arthur Conan-Doyle, Lawrence of Arabia, several scholars, clergy and young people who died of drowning and road accidents.
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