Also, the book is quite timely. Many radio and TV programs today feature pieces on death and dying. Religious leaders are expressing concern about a "culture of death." And the medical community is taking a hard look at what end-of-life care should be like.
Readers of any religious beliefs will find that the many short, spiritual reflections here will profoundly affect the faith with which they meet death. This work is a theological reflection about death. It incorporates the major religious traditions in their understandings of death and offers help to the dying and bereaved in light of these traditions. It is most readable and would be useful to a general audience as well as professionals. It contains a series of essays on the mysterious character of death and the kind of faith needed to live in death's shadow. The author relies on the methods of empirical science as well as on an ecumenical theology that touches on a wide range of scientific and philosophical traditions.
