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ID: 444294

Title: How to Die: A Book about Being Alive

Author: Ray Robertson

Narrator: Graham Rowat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:39:44

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-20

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Health & Wellness, Essays & Anthologies, Mindfulness & Meditation, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

In How to Die: A Book About Being Alive, Ray Robertson meets Montaignes challenge, arguing with characteristic

candour and wit that if we gain a clearer understanding of death, well also better understand life. Contending that

human beings tend to prefer illusion to realityand so readily flock to the consoling myths of philosophy, religion,

and societyRobertson echoes Publius Syrus, the first-century Roman who claimed, They live ill who expect to

live always.

An absorbing excursion through some of Western literatures most compelling works on the subject of mortality,

How to Die: A Book About Being Alive is an anecdotally-laden appeal for cultivating an honest relationship with death

in the belief that, if we do so, well know more about what gives meaning to our lives. Pondering death isnt morbid or

frivolous, Robertson arguesnot unless we believe that asking what makes for a meaningful life is as well.

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