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Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul Paperback – March 17, 2015
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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
- Print length416 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherNorth Atlantic Books
- Publication dateMarch 17, 2015
- Dimensions6 x 1.15 x 9.03 inches
- ISBN-101583949739
- ISBN-13978-1583949733
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- Publisher : North Atlantic Books (March 17, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1583949739
- ISBN-13 : 978-1583949733
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- Dimensions : 6 x 1.15 x 9.03 inches
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If you read with enough patience, humility and discipline to listen for wisdom's quiet whisper you may be rewarded. Paraphrasing Jenkinson, "To those...whose willingness to learn dangerous things in a troubled time grants [them] wild nights in which [to] plant [their] dreams for some coming generation's chance of a better day: May your hearths and roads be blessed, as you have blessed mine."
I suppose given the nature of human suffering, there may always be a sense of troubled times together with noble dreams for the future. In this book Jenkinson dares to dream alive long-denied truths that can heal us all if we are willing to listen, feel, and think with courage.
The experience of receiving this awesome offering is a finding and a making of dark yet vibrant nourishment and realizing for the first time how hungry and how thirsty I have truly been, without fully grasping that until now. Worthy food and drink are offered up here, to be sure, in these mighty and very human, finely wrought pages. I hold these words with me as I seek to feed myself and my family, friends and colleagues, and to be fed by the unexpected yet ever-present heart-breaks that seem to peek or cry out around each corner. The seeds in my heart, as well as in my garden are listening and are thankful. May the new sprouts ever recall the old ones - Many Thanks to You Stephen for this Mentorship in the vital written craft of langauge!!!
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Stephen Jenkinson is a very unusual man who works in what he calls 'the death trade': one of his jobs is to engage with individuals and families where death is due soon from terminal disease. He also lectures on his work, including to health professionals. He is also a farmer out in the wilds, and a man who is learning the rhythms and wisdom of the indigenous people, mostly dead, and a man who is learning to die. Dying is a human right, he says, and an obligation, an act of the individual that recognises continuity. Human life is but one tiny manifestation of Life, an individual's life tinier still. That Life is born of Death: as everything dies its remains spawn birth. A seed from a dead plant when burst open to die produces new life. And culturally, in a healthy culture, our own deaths are an essential, integral part of the continuum of Life. It is hard for us to die so we must learn to have Grief in our hearts - not when somebody dies or when we are dying, although that too, but now, when we are in the flood of life if we are. Grief and Love Jenkinson sees as inseparable. Living fully involves living each moment with grief, the reality of suffering, love and an overarching wisdom born of deep knowing of Nature.
We live, Jenkinson and many others have said, in a death-phobic culture. But this is not universal, it's specific especially to North American and European culture. This culture Jenkinson describes as homeless, unrooted, forever fleeing but never to a secure home. We have no sense of an ancestral tradition stretching behind and beyond. We are orphans. I'd encourage anybody to visit Jenkinson's website orphanwisdom.com and also to watch the documentary about him and his work, 'Griefwalker' (included in amazon Prime membership).
Jenkinson spends much time examining medical technology and its associated 'end of life' care. This 'care' involves reducing pain, sedation, possibly treatment for 'depression', and most of all a strong tendency to prolong life long after the body, which knows naturally when to die if not resisted, has had enough. 'More time' is a weapon used against the possibility of dying well, dying in the sense of embracing dying and grief and love.
In Western culture most people face their deaths with terror. This is not some psychological ailment. It is a spiritual despair, inevitable consequence in a More culture itself terrified of death, a Disneyland culture of taking from the earth, taking, taking. Each theft makes the spiritual hole larger. When those identities of success, happiness, status, health, youth and its middle-aged facades, competence, when these are seen to be fraudulent chimera leaving only an abyss where a soul should be, no wonder there is terror. That is why to die wise we need to start our dying right now.
It is nearly impossible to write a summary of the work, as the ideas require a lot of unfolding in order to be fully offered and understood, but the basic premise is the observation that we currently live in a time that abhors death, and from this follows an inquiry into why this is so, what fuels it, and why it is such a destructive force that desperately needs challenging and changing.
I can't remember the last time I read a book that made me think and question so deeply, often needing to go back and read paragraphs again and again to absorb the profundity of the ideas. Speaking as a person who has dabbled in depth in various different spiritual traditions, I can say with certainty that this book offers some of the greatest wisdom and insight into what is meaningful in life, without overtly purporting to do so, that I have ever come across.
Please, please, read this book.
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Reviewed in Canada on October 18, 2022
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