HjemGrupperSnakMereZeitgeist
Søg På Websted
På dette site bruger vi cookies til at levere vores ydelser, forbedre performance, til analyseformål, og (hvis brugeren ikke er logget ind) til reklamer. Ved at bruge LibraryThing anerkender du at have læst og forstået vores vilkår og betingelser inklusive vores politik for håndtering af brugeroplysninger. Din brug af dette site og dets ydelser er underlagt disse vilkår og betingelser.

Resultater fra Google Bøger

Klik på en miniature for at gå til Google Books

Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul af…
Indlæser...

Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (udgave 2015)

af Stephen Jenkinson (Forfatter), Dr. Martin Shaw (Forord)

MedlemmerAnmeldelserPopularitetGennemsnitlig vurderingSamtaler
1162233,630 (3.46)Ingen
"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 a moral, political, and spiritual obligation each person owes their ancestors and their heirs. It is not a lifestyle option. It is a birthright and a debt. 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 village life, or breaks it. In the end, Jenkinson's message is not one of despair--he believes learning to love death is in fact one of the most direct ways to love life"-- "A 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"--… (mere)
Medlem:elenaadavis
Titel:Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
Forfattere:Stephen Jenkinson (Forfatter)
Andre forfattere:Dr. Martin Shaw (Forord)
Info:North Atlantic Books (2015), 416 pages
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek
Vurdering:1/2
Nøgleord:Ingen

Work Information

Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul af Stephen Jenkinson

Indlæser...

Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog.

Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.

Viser 2 af 2
With lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, the author 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 will fail to live forever.
  PendleHillLibrary | Oct 5, 2022 |
Die Wise is a book about the skill of dying. The author, Stephen Jenkinson, is an older Canadian with some experience in the palliative [or “cloaking”] care industry. A while back he bought a farm and started something called the Orphan Wisdom School, teaching people how to grieve. He published this book in 2015.

Jenkinson starts out by getting into the failure of Western Culture surrounding the dying process. We remove the dying from our daily lives, and obscure their dying process, even from those who are dying. Not only is this extremely expensive, but rather than extending someone’s “life” in the rewarding sense of the term, we prolong their deaths. People that know what’s going on, such as doctors, widely refrain from many of the commonly used “life-extension” techniques [such as chino therapy with terminal cancer].

In many people’s dying process, they start looking for meaning. Jenkison assures us that if this is where you are, you’re too late. Meaning is something created in the prime of our lives, and cannot be found simply by dying.

There’s also a bizarre trend towards thinking of death as unexpected, and life as a right. It’s important to grieve when children die, but it’s not an “injustice” or “unfair.”

Jenkinson proposes that a lot of our problems stem from a lack of skill in grieving. Surprisingly, the antidote to our cultural and personal depression is the genuine expression of sadness.

Dying reminds us that we are not, at any point, in control of our lives.

As Westerners, we are a homeless culture. One meaning of the word homeless is that we don’t have the bodies of our ancestors buried under our feet. Jenkinson says we even “enshrine...[our] lostness as a kind of freedom.” One way you can identify when such a shift happens is when the gods of a people no longer inhabit the land in which their respective people live, but instead become removed to some other plane of reality. At the same time, Jenkinson suggests we shouldn’t be “making metaphors of ordinary things.” All of this is tied up in a process of losing our dead. The dead and the gods happen to have a lot in common, and they way we treat one constituency can inform us about our feelings towards the other.

Jenkinson points out that we never say, “you have your whole death ahead of you.” But in a way, reminding ourselves of this early in life is hearty food for the creation of a meaningful life. The more we learn of the wonder of death, the better we live. ( )
  willszal | Apr 20, 2016 |
Viser 2 af 2
ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Du bliver nødt til at logge ind for at redigere data i Almen Viden.
For mere hjælp se Almen Viden hjælpesiden.
Kanonisk titel
Originaltitel
Alternative titler
Oprindelig udgivelsesdato
Personer/Figurer
Vigtige steder
Vigtige begivenheder
Beslægtede film
Indskrift
Tilegnelse
Første ord
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
Stars. It's dark. You are standing in a field, far from the house.
Citater
Sidste ord
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
Oplysning om flertydighed
Forlagets redaktører
Bagsidecitater
Originalsprog
Canonical DDC/MDS
Canonical LCC

Henvisninger til dette værk andre steder.

Wikipedia på engelsk

Ingen

"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 a moral, political, and spiritual obligation each person owes their ancestors and their heirs. It is not a lifestyle option. It is a birthright and a debt. 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 village life, or breaks it. In the end, Jenkinson's message is not one of despair--he believes learning to love death is in fact one of the most direct ways to love life"-- "A 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"--

No library descriptions found.

Beskrivelse af bogen
Haiku-resume

Current Discussions

Ingen

Populære omslag

Quick Links

Vurdering

Gennemsnit: (3.46)
0.5 1
1 1
1.5
2
2.5
3 4
3.5
4 2
4.5
5 4

Er det dig?

Bliv LibraryThing-forfatter.

 

Om | Kontakt | LibraryThing.com | Brugerbetingelser/Håndtering af brugeroplysninger | Hjælp/FAQs | Blog | Butik | APIs | TinyCat | Efterladte biblioteker | Tidlige Anmeldere | Almen Viden | 203,243,342 bøger! | Topbjælke: Altid synlig