How to Die: A Book about Being Alive, Ray Robertson
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How to Die: A Book about Being Alive

Author: Ray Robertson

Narrator: Graham Rowat

Unabridged: 3 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/07/2020

Genre: Self-help - Death, Grief, Bereavement

Synopsis

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live, writes 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 literatures 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, well know more about what it means to live a meaningful life.

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