Most people have an ambivalent attitude towards death. In the media imaginable permutation of its occurrence in fact and fiction, yet when someone we know, or indeed the contemplation of our own death, a over us. In this highly original book John Moore suggests that in acknowledging the physical body's death and decay we lose sight of another possibility: that release into a new awareness of life. Based on the author's own pshychological experiences--for it is only in to terms with death during life--the assertions in A Wiser Way of Dying Vedic teachings and those of later commentators. John Moore asks the key question 'Who dies?' and suggests that in a pro preparation for death. Only by 'dying to oneself' during life can we may be to come. Just what 'dying to oneself' means is the substance of this ostensibly