Facing Death: A Conversation with Reverend Bodhi Be - Alan E. Clements

Descriere Facing Death: A Conversation with Reverend Bodhi Be - Alan E. Clements

\n \nA rare and beautiful dialogue on liberating death. Through the wisdom of our grief, we enter into an existential sense door, where death itself becomes a festival of wonder, a heightened radical ride into the heart of the ever-present future, and beyond. Thisis a must read for every person on earth who cares about the future of life and death.- Jeannine Davies, PhD, Psychologist, author, Relational Dharma \nGreetings. Thank you for being with me on this journey. A preface to my book, Facing Death. \nA year ago I was diagnosed with a fatal heart condition. An emergency room visit revealed a severely 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 hose ready to burst, a ticking time bomb on a short fuse, and that death could and likely would come at any second if I did not undergo immediate open-heart surgery. \nI scheduled three surgeries and cancelled them all due to the shock and the tears, inevitably, of facing something so dramatic. I decided to come to Maui, my second spiritual home (after Burma) to enter hospice and apply for the right to take my life. \nHawaii allows the right to die by your own choice, and through a rigorous process I was granted the pharmaceutical substance necessary, should I make this decision. \nI took care of business. 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, had attracted me. I had known of him, had respect for him, and he agreed to handle my body and bury it, whether I die by natural causes or choose to consciously, mindfully euthanize on my most sacred terms. \nI've had this vision for some months, and the only thing that was left was a heart-to-heart with the man that I entrusted, who bequeathed me with his compassion to take care of my body and bury it, should I die here. I felt pressing questions in perhaps a little sharper detail; Who are you? Who are we? I wanted to get to know him. \nThis 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. \nWe sit and talk in the context of Ukrainian/ Russian war, and with it t

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