The Art of Dying

It also draws on interviews with nationally recognized experts in family medicine, palliative care, geriatrics, oncology, hospice, and other medical specialties. Inspired by the medieval death manual Ars Moriendi, or the Art of Dying , T he Art of Dying Well is the definitive update for our modern age, and illuminates the path to a better end of life. It is a guide for staying as healthy and happy as possible while aging, and also shows how important it is to be medically informed and know our rights in the communities where we live, in order to stay in charge of our lives and therefore less afraid of the future.

Katy Butler has written a very honest book.

The Art of Dying Well

I just wish I had read it ten years ago. You can do it now!

Katy Butler has clear eyes and speaks plainly about complicated decisions. This book is chock-full of good ideas. Armed with this superb book, you can take back control of how you live before you die. Nuland, author of How We Die: It is riveting, and even with parents long gone, I found it very hard to put down. I am deeply grateful for its truth, wisdom, and gorgeous stories—some heartbreaking, some life-giving, some both at the same time. Butler is an amazing and generous writer. Peter Fenwick is an eminent neuropsychiatrist, academic and expert on disorders of the brain.

His most compelling and provocative research has been into the end of life phenomena, including near-death experiences and deathbed visions of the dying person, as well as the experiences of hospice and palliative care workers and relatives of dying people. Fenwick believes that consciousness may be independent of the brain and so able to survive the death of the brain, a theory which has divided the scientific community.

The "problem with death" is deeply rooted in our culture and the social organization of death rituals. Fenwick believes that with serious engagement and through further investigation of these phenomena, he can help change attitudes so that we in the West can face up to death, and embrace it as a significant and sacred part of life. We have become used to believing that we have to shield each other from the idea of death.

Fear of death means we view it as something to be fought every step of the way. Aimed at a broad popular readership, The Art of Dying looks at how other cultures have dealt with death and the dying process The Tibetan "death system", Swedenborg, etc. It describes too the experiences of health care workers who are involved with end of life issues who feel that they need a better understanding of the dying process, and more training in how to help their patients die well by overcoming the common barriers to a good death, such as unfinished business and unresolved emotions of guilt or hate.

From descriptions of the phenomena encountered by the dying and those around them, to mapping out ways in which we can die a "good death", this book is an excellent basis for helping people come to terms with death. The Start of the Journey 2. Take Voltaire for example; the saying we've been uttering since god knows when Actions Has Consequences came from what Voltaire philosophically had said in his book Candied "There is no effect without a cause.

Now this is philosophy because it was subject to experience and scrutiny by a man who's eligible to write philosophy. What Voltaire said is worthy to be written and taught as well. I don't know how or why, but this whole thing brings me to read The Art of Dying. When you understand the art of life you will automatically understand the art of dying for they are exceedingly linked to each other.

The importance of this book lays in this sentence "The greatest Masters have never said anything about life -- they have always thrown you back upon yourself. In the matters of life and death, you can't ask someone to teach you about it or read numerous books to tell you what is life and how is death; it's all on you to puzzle out. Simply, we can't know whether God exists or not, both atheists and theists are mistaken in their remarks, and rationalists are right simply because they seem Cartesian in this regard, distinct with this the divine undisputed issues, and the objectives of humanitarian questions.

We don't know much about the internal mechanism of the world and that makes any kind of the big complaints about the nature of existence and If there was an incentive presence somewhere or not, a lot of people revert that to The School of Natural - A proposal supposed that the progress of the world is whereby to independent operations - But this does not opposed to the existence of a great founder who linked the movement of all things Deism.

As previously noted, perhaps we are all living in a simulation where there is a programmer God controls all assets, or perhaps rationalists are right about the presence of a deep power in the existence, in which we don't realize. It's not necessarily to be the omnipotent Lord, the knower of the Abrahamic breed, but hypothetically despite this, an existed power. Again this is not a scientific question in itself rather than a platonic intellectual experiences forces us to confront the humanitarian questions.

The Art of Dying: Peter Fenwick: Continuum

I've always thought of this question, and I've never find a satisfying answer. What Osho said made it perfectly clear to me; how many people intent on committing a suicide? When we say that life is a mystery, we are saying that life is not a problem. A problem can be solved. A mystery is that which cannot be solved.

And it is good that life cannot be solved, otherwise what would you do then?

Art of Dying

Just think of it. If life is not a mystery and somebody comes and explains it to you -- then what will you do? There will be nothing left except to commit suicide. Even that will look meaningless. I'll update this review after a second read for it. View all 3 comments. Sep 26, Sash Chiesa rated it it was amazing.

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This dangerous man never fails to mesmerize me, tempt me and seduce me into more and more. His boundless wisdom, his rebellion, his movement are a blessing for us all and a bliss for one who really is able to suck up the nectar. Jun 27, Guy rated it it was amazing Shelves: Both for the spiritual teaching and for, what I see as, the glimpse into the man.

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The Art of Dying

I started reading this books just out of curiosity to understand the existence of the life. All I got in return was a understanding of being, over the understanding of having it. Thanks for the way, and also thanks for not showing the destination. Jan 09, Niel rated it really liked it. Osho is very confusing yet very revealing. Kendi merkezini bul ve orada dur.