Death
A Book Review of J. Todd Billings, The End of the Christian Life: How Embracing Our Mortality Frees Us to Truly Live (Brazo Press, 2020)
J. Todd Billings, The End of the Christian Life: How Embracing Our Mortality Frees Us to Truly Live …
Topic: Death
Hastened Death Preparations: A New/Old Means for Providing a Healthy and Peaceful Death
A Book Review of T. Quill et al, Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely Available Option for Hastening Death (2021)
Thanks to medicine, nutrition, sanitation, good government, trade, and peace, human life expectancy has grown longer. But, we all die. For most of human history, life expectancy was about 30 years and people died of accidents primarily.
Responsible Death
A Book Review of Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart, The Peaceful Pill Handbook (2021)
Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart, The Peaceful Pill Handbook …
Hard Grieving
A Book Review of P. Boss, Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief (1990)
P. Boss, Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief (1990) is a series of stories, with comments, of families in distress and…
Afterlife
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (2020) by Bart D. Ehrman - A Book Review
B. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife , clarifies the obscure history of our cultural education about the afterlife. …
Death and Immortality
Religion Without God (2013) by Ronald Dworkin
This book, R. Dworkin , …
Patient Perspective
A Book Review of Paul Kalanitihi, When Breath Becomes Air: What Makes Life Worth Living in the Face of Death (2016)
Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air: What Makes Life Worth Living in the Face of Death (2016) is the story…
Universal Retirement
A Book Review of Michelle Silver, Retirement and Its Discontents: Why We Won’t Stop Working, Even If We Can (2018)
Part of being human is retirement, since retirement is only a moniker of later life transitions. Retirement is universal for all geographies and cultures, with a wide variety in roles and traditions for retirement. As we do in our…
End of Life
A Book Review of Amy Ziettlow and Naomi Cahn, Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss (2017)
If you are looking for a deeper understanding of elder care at the end of life, this book, Amy Ziettlow and Naomi Cahn, Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss …
Death Dinners
A Book Review of Michael Hebb, Let’s Talk about Death Over Dinner: An Invitation and Guide to Life’s Most Important Conversation (2018)
Talking about the universal human experience of death is a good thing. In the new book, Michael Hebb, Let’s Talk about Death Over Dinner: An Invitation and Guide to Life’s…