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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)
$22.00 CAD |
Informed by her many years working as a nurse, with more than a decade in palliative care, Tisdale provides a frank, direct, and compassionate meditation on the inevitable. From the sublime (the faint sound of Mozart as you take your last breath) to the ridiculous (lessons on how to close the sagging jaw of a corpse), Tisdale leads the reader through the peaks and troughs of death with a calm, wise, and humorous hand. Advice for Future Corpses is a graceful compilation of honest and intimate anecdotes based on the deaths Tisdale has witnessed in her work and life, as well as stories from cultures, traditions, and literature around the world.
If you want to be more comfortable with death itself, with your death and the death of others, spend time near it. Read this travel guide and follow the maps and find a place where you can see what happens next—what will, like it or not, happen to you in time…. This is just a book about how you can get ready.
Tisdale explores all the heartbreaking, beautiful, terrifying, confusing, absurd, and even joyful experiences that accompany the work of dying, including:
- A Good Death: What does it mean to die “a good death”?
- Communication: What to say and not to say, what to ask, and when, from the dying, loved ones, doctors, and more.
- Last Months, Weeks, Days, and Hours: What you might expect, physically and emotionally.
- Bodies: What happens to a body after death? What options are available to me after my death, and how do I choose—and make sure my wishes are followed?
- Grief: “Grief is the story that must be told over and over... Grief is the breath after the last one.”
Advice for Future Corpses includes exercises designed to make you think differently about the inevitable. She includes practical advice, personal experience, a little Buddhist philosophy, and stories. Beautifully written and compulsively readable, Advice for Future Corpses offers essential reading for future corpses everywhere.