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In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger
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For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger
traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And
yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while
spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his
wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was
rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away.
As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting
Junger to join him. “It’s okay,” his father said. “There’s nothing to be
scared of. I’ll take care of you.” That was the last thing Junger
remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had
suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived.
This experience spurred Junger—a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical—to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when forced to reckon with such existential questions?
In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.
This experience spurred Junger—a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical—to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when forced to reckon with such existential questions?
In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.
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Listed on 28 May, 2024