Preparing to Die

Preparing to Die offers generous spiritual and practical guidance to help us develop confidence and compassion wherever there is fear of – our own or others' – confronting death. A significant contribution to the continued transplantation of the Buddha's wisdom in Western culture. "Death is one of the most precious experiences in life, literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Yet after many years of teaching on death and dying, I am surprised that even for spiritual practitioners death remains a dreaded event. We dread it because we don't know about it. We don'tlook forward to death because we don't know what to look forward to. I wrote this book to help you prepare – to illuminate the darkness of death and to give you something to look forward to. My vision was to provide a comprehensive reference manual, an encyclopedia of death. Preparing to Die is divided into two principal parts, on spiritual and practical preparation. Each of these is further divided into what to do befo