Deathing: An Intelligent Alternative for the Final Moments of Life

Foos-Graber, Anya

ISBN 10: 0892540168 / ISBN 13: 9780892540167

Published by Nicolas-Hays, Inc, 1989

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Synopsis:

Everyone who is born is someday going to die. Some of us will die peacefully in our sleep, some will die in accidents, and some as the result of diseases, cancer or AIDS. Because we do not usually know when we are going to die, most of us are frightened of death. We do not want to talk about it, do not want to face it, and we run from it as long as we can. And some of us die a lonely death--in a hospital, surrounded by strangers and white sheets, while family and loved ones are kept out of the room at the final moment. Anya Foos-Graber believes that death, like birth, should be a shining, light filled, conscious moment. Death is not a disease. It is the most natural passage we will make since birth. Looking at death before the time comes is like learning about natural childbirth before having a baby. Just as women are choosing to be conscious participants in the birth process, Foos-Graber feels that all of us should be conscious as well of our eventual death--that we should prepare for it the way the Tibetan Buddhists and American Indians used to do. The author calls this process of conscious preparation and practice deathing. The book presents two teaching stories, illustrating both a conscious death and an unconscious one. The second half of the book is a step-by-step manual, containing complete instruction and simple exercises--such as breathing, visualization, and the all important, "6th technique," or your chosen "Name and form of God" to which you direct your attention in life and the death transition. You can use the formless LIGHT itself as referent, an absence of any belief structure. A support person rather like the father's presence in natural childbirth can assist in the event of coma, or accident death. Other books have been written about grief, about wills, about taking care of your affairs. This is a book about taking care of yourself, and how to be helpful to someone you care for. Deathing has two aims: to make sure that the dying are comfortable and comforted as they die, and to help all of us prepare for the greatest adventure we will face since birth.

About the Author:

Anya F. Graber, M.A. earned degrees from Peabody College and Vanderbilt University and studied art in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is a former minister, part time yoga instructor, occasional farm worker & lecturer in Continuing Education and full-time writer. Author of visionary poetry, SkyCleaver,1975; One Soul, Rising: Four Past Life Recalls, 1976, Thadian Publications, of which an eBook version has just been released; Deathing: An Intelligent Alternative for the Final Moments of Life, 1989, a textbook in the health profession for over twenty years, there is also a video, Deathing: An Introduction to Conscious Dying by Hartley Films. Anya has lived in Europe, Mexico and India, and currently lives near the center of the United States, has two grown sons and is more than half a century old. Coming soon, part of her visionary autobiography(ies) has a working title of Jataka Tales; Metamorphosis. Look for it on this site circa 2014.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Deathing: An Intelligent Alternative for the...
Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good