Dying well, Jenkinson writes, 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. Die Wise dreams such a dream, and plots such an uprising. How we die, how we care for dying people, and how we carry our dead: this work makes our capacity for a 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
