How to die : a book about being alive / Ray Robertson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2019]Copyright date: �2019Description: 181 pages ; 19 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781771960946 (trade paperback)
- 128/.5 23
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(S2(BHe who would teach men to die would teach them to live,(S3 (Bwrites Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book on Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality, Robertson argues that the active and intentional consideration of death is neither morbid nor frivolous, but instead essential to our ability to fully value life. How to Die is both an absorbing excursion through some of Western literature's most compelling works on the subject of death as well as an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death in the belief that, if we do, we'll know more about what it means to live a meaningful life.