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Many of you know this already, but for those who don't, about a year ago I was diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition. A routine scan, that discovered a cracked rib, also revealed an acutely enlarged aortic aneurysm, an often-lethal swelling in the largest vessel leaving the heart. I was told in no uncertain terms that it was like a radiator pipe ready to burst, and that death could and likely would come "at any second" if I did not undergo immediate open-heart surgery. I scheduled three surgeries and cancelled them all due to the shock and the adjustment, the investigation and conversations, and the tears, inevitably, of facing something so dramatic. I decided to come to Maui, my second sacred spiritual home (after Burma) to enter hospice and apply for the right to take my life. I went to see my beloved daughter, Sahra Bella, in Vancouver. I wrote my will and my Five Wishes. I looked deeply into who would handle my burial and my body. Reverend Bodhi Be, here on the island, at his green funeral organization, Doorway Into Light, with its Death Store, had attracted me. He agreed to handle my body and bury it, here on the island, whether I die by natural causes or choose to consciously, mindfully euthanize on my most sacred terms. This book, Facing Death, is perhaps the most sacred conversation I've ever had. It was deliberately designed to be one sitting, to be read in an hour to an hour and a half, to be felt, to be resonated with, to cry along with us.This book is part prayer, part scream, part hymn, part meditation; a sonnet, a love song to God, to each of us. It's not meant to teach anything except to inspire our own humble, vulnerable, authentic, dignified way to face the inevitable. May I invite you to enter this portal with us, this conversation, an existential human conversation of the heart. I hope there's something beautiful in it for you, as there was for me, and I know the Reverend Bodhi Be. Alan Clements
| ISBN-13 | 9781953508270 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1953508278 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.00 x 0.29 x 8.00 In |
| List Price | $23.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Publisher | World Dharma Publications |
| Published On | 2022-05-29 |
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