
Die Wise
A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
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Stephen Jenkinson
Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the discussion and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well. Die Wise is for those who will fail to live forever.
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 all people owe 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.
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The book deserves to be listened to meditatively, in the same manner in which it was written. There are no quick or easy lessons within, but if patience is applied, there are rich benefits of perspective and wisdom and solemnity. Don't fail to listen thoroughly, all the way to the end.
I am thankful to have listened to "Die Wise" on audio book. While I am certain that reading it on paper would have been worthwhile, Stephen Jenkinson's reading of his own words feels like a privilege.
This truly is a deep, necessary, and uncommon gift.
A deep and necessary experience.
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This week, two different people told me about their best friend who died or is in hospice dying. I showed up differently for them than I would have before reading this book, and I can’t quite name it. But a certain fear or aversion has dissolved or is dissolving. I felt more present and open … accepting that death is a mystery.
I’m learning and questioning practices that have been the norm. I’ll keep working on what it means to Die Wise.
So rich, I need to listen again
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If you are interested in the topic of dying well, read this book. And maybe re-read it again.
Thought provoking and paradigm shifting
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Amazing book, mediocre editing on audio
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So Needed
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Fantastic and soulful
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Most important book I’ve ever read
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taking in the beauty
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Vital human education
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Well worth reading
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