Summary: Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2011
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Summary: Even in this confessional age, we've been conditioned to avoid discussions of death--which is why, when the end nears, most of us are inadequately prepared to deal with it. The cost of that is great: many are haunted by memories of how inappropriately or painfully or uncomfortably their parents and grandparents died. Yet many of us avoid even considering the options, in all their complexity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2004