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Deathing: An Intelligent Alternative for the Final Moments of Life

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While I keep an extra copy of this book to give away if I learn someone is terminally ill, it is a good read for anyone. "On Death and Dying" (Elisabeth Kbler-Ross) offers seminal research on the pre-death experience. "Deathing" richly illustrates the soul's transition, what follows, how to prepare, and what to expect.

The reader learns how traditional rituals were designed to help the soul in transition and how one can help a loved one at that milestone. I consider both books essential background for anyone who works with the terminally ill. Long herself an adept and teacher of out of body movement, Anya Foos-Graber brings the creativity of a novelist and deep, affirming, personal spiritual insight to this most important of topics.

Written in 1984 when the conscious birth movement was gaining ground along with the conscious death movement, Anya Foos-Graber provided us with a vivid case study combined with a manual for preparing for our own death or being a loving and skillful companion for someone facing their death.

Among the other books you might enjoy reading to amplify her essentialized manual, I'd suggest Sogyal Rinpoche's "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying." Her book, written before the publication of his, was not able to cite this in its bibliography.

This is a useful book for changing cultural attitudes and metaphors of facing death more directly with less fear and more hope.

--Janet Grace Riehl, Sightlines: A Poet's Diary

I discovered this book 11 years after its publication. It should rank as important as "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying".But how we MODERNS learn about dying,either for our own or for our loved ones? This book gives a step by step instruction in a compassionate way. It integrated ancient wisdom,NDE research and conscious dying into a powerful experience! It is a joy to read. THANK YOU,ANYA.

excellent and comprehensive guide to imaging and harmony for the transition experience called "death". Invaluable for self and family members of healthy or ill persons.

My father recently made his transition. I read many books about the deathing experience before he passed on, and this was my favorite one. It is very helpful for those in the place of giving care, and for understanding and preparing for our own journey.

How did Paul Twitchell die? Weren't you (Anya) with him? Why not tell this story of deathing? Confessions of a God Seeker by Ford Johnson also tells God-soul how to prepare for death or vice versa which is the same.