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Sweet Sorrow
Mark Wakely
其他書名
A Beginner's Guide To Death
出版
Melbourne Univ. Publishing
, 2008-05-01
主題
Family & Relationships / General
Health & Fitness / General
ISBN
0522858953
9780522858952
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ulbDVPWISI8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This remarkable book-at times heart-breaking, at times humorous-is dazzling for its profound honesty. Like most of us, Mark Wakely had always put death in the too-hard basket. Around death he was painfully awkward, strangely self-conscious: death-shy. He was curiously distanced from his own parents' deaths. Thirty years later, he went on a journey to confront one of the most intensely personal yet universal experiences: our own mortality. With Mark as our guide, we are introduced to morticians and embalmers, rabbis and doctors, coffin makers and gravediggers. He reveals the fashions and the fads, the rituals and the deep emotion in a heartfelt and whimsical investigation into this timeless subject. All you need to pack for the trip is a curiosity about life.