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Die Wise
- A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
- Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
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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 discussion 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 not a lifestyle option. It is a moral, political, and spiritual obligation all people owe 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.
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- L. Taylor
- 09-11-18
A journey
I am very grateful to Sara, who recommended this book to me. I had heard the author on a podcast about two years ago, and I wasn’t interested. I have now listened to two of his books, this being one, and I think his words have had a big impact on me; so many things I take for granted, many fresh takes on things I had not considered. Thank you Stephen and Sara.
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- GDS
- 22-09-19
A mandatory book to live better.
Wonderful, deep heart wrenching book on a topic we do not get taught and hence it is essential that we read/listen to it. Stephen's voice adds to the experience and make it all the better.
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- Dawn Rising
- 19-05-20
Wonderful & Wise
A book tha t everyone should read or listen to. Beautifully spoken from someone who knows, splendidly worded with intelligence, compassion and humour. Big questions posed, and quite right too! I listened twice, one after the other. Highly recommend.
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- SJB
- 13-06-20
Profound. Life changing
I am immensely grateful to find this book. It has been an absolutely essential part of my education, a missing piece finally found. Listening to Jenkinson narration is deeply compelling and a joy. Thank you.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-02-22
Prepare to have your heart torn open
Beauty, the like it's rare to find.
Terror, the sort you might run from..unless you can find the courage to stay.
Wisdom, the depth you long to hear, late at night around the camp fire
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- William D.
- 30-09-20
I am a changed man
The depth, eloquence and grace of this book, of this performance, will live with me as a gift, when the time comes to be dying, I wish it my greatest treasure
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- Eala
- 05-01-18
Subtle and superb
Beneath the apparent initial grumpiness, the occasional obtuseness, and the poetry, there is a great depth of wisdom and emotional intelligence here. Treasures await, for one willing to dig patiently.
Jenkinson is a superb storyteller, and thus he carried me with him, through the slow or heavy parts, to the parts that shone astonishingly, and moved me to tears - sobs of recognition, exclamations of wonder, and entirely new ways of thinking about death, and living, and loving, and remembering, and grieving...
There is no adequate way to write a short review for this extraordinary book. You can find long reviews that go into detail and do it some justice if you search the Internet a little.
I have filled my copy with bookmarks and notes, have revisited the best bits often, and will listen again many times in the years to come. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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- J. Bonnet
- 05-10-17
A timeless treasure chest of wisdom
Stephens' writing (and narration) is touching and thought provoking. I've listened to it about 9 times through now, and Jenkinson's wisdom is such that each listen I remain rapt. There aren't many people who talk about suffering, and the difficulties of life, as he can.
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- Tracey Collins
- 18-04-22
I'm grateful for this boom
this has guided me and kept me sane as I was with my mother throughout her dying,it is indeed a manifesto for sanity and soul
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- JulieGibbons
- 26-08-18
Essential wisdom for being human
Jenkinson is a master story-teller. Draw close to the hearth and allow his gut-wrenching, heart-breaking wisdom to bring you home to the truth of love, grief, death and living in these times. Don’t wait until a terminal diagnosis arrives to absorb these teachings. I am immeasurably impacted, forever altered, eternally grateful for this gift.
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