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Title: How to Die: A Book about Being Alive
Author: Ray Robertson
Narrator: Graham Rowat
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
Release date: July 7, 2020
Genres: Mindfulness & Meditation
Publisher's Summary:
In How to Die: A Book About Being Alive, Ray Robertson meets Montaigne’s challenge, arguing with characteristiccandour and wit that if we gain a clearer understanding of death, we’ll also better understand life. Contending thathuman beings tend to prefer illusion to reality—and so readily flock to the consoling myths of philosophy, religion,and society—Robertson echoes Publius Syrus, the first-century Roman who claimed, “They live ill who expect tolive always.”An absorbing excursion through some of Western literature’s 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 deathin the belief that, if we do so, we’ll know more about what gives meaning to our lives. Pondering death isn’t morbid orfrivolous, Robertson argues—not unless we believe that asking what makes for a meaningful life is as well.
Title: How to Die: A Book about Being Alive
Author: Ray Robertson
Narrator: Graham Rowat
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
Release date: July 7, 2020
Genres: Mindfulness & Meditation
Publisher's Summary:
In How to Die: A Book About Being Alive, Ray Robertson meets Montaigne’s challenge, arguing with characteristiccandour and wit that if we gain a clearer understanding of death, we’ll also better understand life. Contending thathuman beings tend to prefer illusion to reality—and so readily flock to the consoling myths of philosophy, religion,and society—Robertson echoes Publius Syrus, the first-century Roman who claimed, “They live ill who expect tolive always.”An absorbing excursion through some of Western literature’s 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 deathin the belief that, if we do so, we’ll know more about what gives meaning to our lives. Pondering death isn’t morbid orfrivolous, Robertson argues—not unless we believe that asking what makes for a meaningful life is as well.
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