This article in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande. It’s a pretty long article, but does a great job of describing many of the practical and “life-side” issues associated with dying. I came across the link to the article through the Speaking of Faith blog.
Reading it made me realize that there are many issues that we need to take on and come to grips with regarding “how we die” in modern culture. Most of those issues happen on “this” side of that doorway of transformation between this life and whatever does (or doesn’t) happen on the other side of that transformation. I’m thinking, though, that the issues on this side are pretty tough to deal with unless you’re comfortable with what you believe about what happens on the other side of that transformation.
Thoughts?
