Will Adolphy

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When I say “know death well,” I mean that we must know how singular and nonhuman death is, how it is a knowable mystery not much known by our culture, how for all its ubiquity it continues to be dreaded and entered into as separation and loss and a miserable shock. If we are going to do anything more than remind dying people of what they no longer have and can no longer do and what they will never be again, we must know how it is for a man or a woman in the course of the ordinary business of getting dressed or washed to see or feel something they have never seen or felt before, and how it is ...more
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Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
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