Reflections: Three ways to think about death and dying

Reflections: Three ways to think about death and dying
Post Alley, Seattle, WA; by Anthony B. Robinson; 6/21/24
Our book group had a wrap-up session on our “Aging and Mortality” series last night. We invited everyone to share their own take-aways from our six books. What did we learn? What was comforting? Challenging? How might this effect your planning and decision-making? Before I share my own take-aways from the series, I would note one general theme in what we read: the more we isolate death and the dying, the more we fear death. Here my three take-aways from the series and our conversations:

• First, the process of dying has some predictable stages and patterns, and can be relatively benign. ...
• My second take-away makes a distinction between control and agency. ...
• My third take-away is that death, or better, the experience of dying, is sacred. ...