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does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to makedyingeasier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working withdyingpeople and their families, StephenJenkinsonplaces death at the center of the page and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. teaches the skills ofdying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well.is for those who will fail to live forever.

Dyingwell,Jenkinsonwrites, 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.dreams such a dream, and plots such an uprising.How wedie, how we care fordyingpeople, and how we carry our dead: this work makesour capacity fora 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