{"product_id":"die-wise-by-stephen-jenkinson-9781583949733","title":"Die Wise","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA potentially life-changing book for anyone wanting to experience grief and death in a more meaningful way. Grounded in the author's experiences with hundreds of dying people and their families, the book advocates a bold engagement with a part of the human experience that is often more endured than lived. In its own unique way, \u003cem\u003eDie Wise\u003c\/em\u003e is more about living than dying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDie Wise\u003c\/em\u003e 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 centre of the page and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. \u003cem\u003eDie Wise\u003c\/em\u003e teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well. \u003cem\u003eDie Wise\u003c\/em\u003e is for those who will fail to live forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDying 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. \u003cem\u003eDie Wise\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Ordeal of a Managed Death\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eStealing Meaning from Dying\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Tyrant Hope\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Quality of Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eYes, But Not Like This\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Work\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSo Who Are the Dying to You?\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDying Facing Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWhat Dying Asks of Us All\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKids\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAh, My Friend the Enemy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46549058453740,"sku":"9781583949733","price":36.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26289043482751.jpg?v=1749878683","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/die-wise-by-stephen-jenkinson-9781583949733","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}