[HN Gopher] The Enduring Genius of 'The Craft of Dying' ___________________________________________________________________ The Enduring Genius of 'The Craft of Dying' Author : samclemens Score : 21 points Date : 2022-10-24 19:52 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu) | ramesh31 wrote: | >Sadly, Lyn died this past September after a long and impactful | career. | | I can't escape the irony of this statement | wolfhumble wrote: | Reading through this article I had a hard time finding the | purpose of the book or really the article itself. From the | article I might remember that there are 'happy death | movement(s)', whatever that is since it isn't really explained. | | Does it want to say that death is something normal and should be | talked about? | | For me as a Christian death has been something that I have | thought about pretty much all my life. In different facets. | Christ died and rose from death, and in this way He conquered | death itself. As a Christian I am dead, buried and resurrected | with Christ as shown in my baptism. And when my body dies one | day, I enter into the kingdom of God and eternal life. | | Still: Death sucks. Like my brother - who died a few months ago - | said: "It would be all good and fine if it wasn't for those | friggin feelings". With Christ though, there is hope in the | suffering. Because one glorious day: "He will wipe away every | tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more" [Revelation | 21:4]. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-24 23:00 UTC)