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An insightful collection of teachings about death and dying to help face life's greatest mystery calmly and with equanimity.

Lifetimes of effort go into organizing, designing, and structuring every aspect of our lives, but how many people are willing to contemplate the inevitability of death? Although dying is an essential…

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1 author picked Living is Dying as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As an artist, I seek inspiration from life, about life.

If creativity is about life, then life is about death. What better angle to view the light than from the shadows? I always keep death lurking about in my own work, though often thinking about it makes me deal with it in a lighter way, because only through the darkness can the light have meaning, and often through humor you can convey heavy things.

The author has been a constant inspiration to me, because he always tells it as it is. If you want spiced up feel-good spirituality, don’t read…

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