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Die Wise

A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

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Die Wise

Von: Stephen Jenkinson
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 A fierce, lyrical manifesto that dares readers to face death without sentimentality—and reveals dying well as one of the deepest acts of living, loving, and human responsibility.

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 page 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 each person owes 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.

Table of Contents
The Ordeal of a Managed Death
Stealing Meaning from Dying
The Tyrant Hope
The Quality of Life
Yes, But Not Like This
The Work
So Who Are the Dying to You?
Dying Facing Home
What Dying Asks of Us All
Kids
Ah, My Friend the Enemy Beziehungen Persönliche Entwicklung Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Tod & Sterben Trauer & Verlust
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“Stephen Jenkinson’s elegant and sorrow-freighted book brings prophetic insight rather than pastoral affirmations. A true story-man, Jenkinson paints image after image on the cave wall of his parchment. Die Wise is a formidable body of work, road-tested in ways most of us hope never to know about. Stay with it, hold the sorrow as the gift it is, savor in small, immense chunks. Every word is an invitation to trade fantasy for imagination. There isn’t a book like it.”
—Dr. Martin Shaw, author of Snowy Tower: Parzival and the Wet, Black Branch of Language
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A deeply moving book, which felt at the same time as a punch in the gut and a balm for the soul. It left me wanting to listen to it again, to make sure I squeeze out of it every ounce of teaching that it so generously offers. It left me yearning to surround myself with teachers like Mr. Jenkinson and to keep an eye out for wisdom, where I can find it. It left me humbled and empowered and more at home in the world than I'd previously been. As for the content - my words won't do it justice, so I will not attempt to summarize it. The narration is as much part of the story as the words itself, so I can't say how happy I am that I didn't first attempt to read the hard copy. A beautiful work of life, but not for the faint-hearted.

The epic story of our lives and deaths

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Outstanding knowledge, deep wisdom, touching stories, Steven's poetic language... If this book won't change you, I don't know what will.

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Tolle Titel und Grundidee, allerdings der Author ist selbstverliebt und denkt dass nur weil er Menschen sterben sah, er das ganze Leben verstanden hat. Eigentlich auch zu lang für die paar Ideen die er hat.

Tolle Titel, der Rest ist leider schlecht

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