Facing Mortality: Expanded Edition: Living Honestly with the Climate Crisis, the Threat to Democracy, and my Terminal Cancer

Rack, Robert

ISBN 10: 1733340254 / ISBN 13: 9781733340250

Published by Nolan Kerr Press (edition ), 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Facing Mortality: Expanded Edition: Living Honestly with the Climate Crisis, the Threat to Democracy, and my Terminal Cancer
• Publisher: Nolan Kerr Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1733340254
• ISBN 13: 9781733340250
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

ROBERT RACK, in his seventies, was healthy by all measures. Then, right after a positive physical exam, he was told that he had a terminal illness. Had only months to live. This book exists because he chose to write about the crisis of what to do in light of that reality.

Bob began to share, in a series of essays, his condition, as well as the meaning of his proximity to mortality—of himself and the world. How all of us are participants in the disturbing reality of something much larger than our own lifespan, namely the dying health of our planet and the threatened demise of democracy. Each word he says about his future is a thread to our collective terminal possibility.

These essays let us sit next to him in his choice between dying in a few months without radical medical intervention or taking on the disabling and risky process of a bone marrow transplant.

This is not a reflection or a memoir. Bob writes not knowing what choices he will make between accepting his condition or attempting a high-risk treatment that might possibly extend his life.

His story is powerful in that, in the moment of writing, he does not know what lies ahead. He awakens us to another level of honesty about the vulnerability of our lives and the well-being of the planet and democracy. Would that we could all see what is in front of us as clearly and courageously as Bob has done.

Bob Rack passed away on Wednesday, March 20. This new edition of his book has been expanded to include the last essays he wrote before he died.