How to Die

A Book About Being Alive

Ray Robertson

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Biblioasis
20 July 2020

Sociology: death & dying; Coping with death & bereavement

""He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,"" writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book on Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality, Robertson argues that the active and intentional consideration of death is neither morbid nor frivolous, but instead essential to our ability to fully value life. How to Die is both an absorbing excursion through some of Western literature's most compelling works on the subject of death as well as an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death in the belief that, if we do, we'll know more about what it means to live a meaningful life.

By: Ray Robertson
Imprint: Biblioasis
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781771960946
ISBN 10: 1771960949
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 20 July 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ray Robertson box set. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, he lives in Toronto.

Reviews for How to Die: A Book About Being Alive

Praise for Ray Robertson Robertson is a moral writer and a bitingly intelligent one, a man who writes with penetrating insight of what needs to be written about: beauty, truth and goodness. -Globe and Mail Sharp-tongued . . . as Robertson ponders family and home as well as 'what it means to love someone and to lose someone and to have to go on living anyway,' he presents an intriguing character whose very real troubles are offset by bright flashes of hope. -Publishers Weekly Clear-eyed . . . Robertson is no stranger to confronting unsavoury truths. -Steven Beattie Heartfelt, funny, rigorous, practical without ever being preachy . . . a book that feels like a friend. -Montreal Gazette Sly wit and keen observation . . . an exceptional novel by one of the country's finest literary voices. - National Post