Though well-intended people working in the death trade regularly praise dying people as their greatest teachers, dying people are typically busy trying to figure out how to die, most of them in the undertow of the death-phobic aversions that predominate at dying time. They are not teaching, nor are they trying to teach. The most accomplished among them are struggling with all this. In a death-phobic time and place you cannot as a given learn what dying is or what it asks of us all from their tuition.
