Advice for Future Corpses and Those ..., Sallie Tisdale
Advice for Future Corpses and Those ..., Sallie Tisdale
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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)
A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

Author: Sallie Tisdale

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/12/2018


Synopsis

You get ready to die the way you get ready for a trip. Start by realizing you don't know the way. Read a few travel guides. Study the language, look at maps, gather equipment. Let yourself imagine what it will be like. Pack your bags. This book is one of those travel guides—a guide to preparing for your own death and the deaths of people close to you.

The fact of death is hard to believe. Sallie Tisdale explores our fears and all the ways death and talking about death make us uncomfortable—but she also explores its intimacies and joys. Tisdale looks at grief, what the last days and hours of life are like, and what happens to dead bodies. Advice for Future Corpses includes exercises designed to make you think differently about the inevitable. She includes practical advice, personal experience, a little Buddhist philosophy, and stories.

But this isn't a book of inspiration or spiritual advice—Advice for Future Corpses is about how you can get ready. Start by admitting that we are all future corpses.

About Sallie Tisdale

Sallie Tisdale is the author of several books, including Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love them), Violation, Talk Dirty to Me, Stepping Westward, and Women of the Way. She has received a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship, the James D. Phelan Literary Award, and was selected for the Shoenfeldt Distinguished Visiting Writer Series. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, The Antioch Review, Conjunctions, and Tricycle. In addition to her award-winning writing career, Tisdale has been a nurse for many years, including a decade in palliative care. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Visit her online at SallieTisdale.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mainlinebooker on July 05, 2018

A wonderfully philosophical and yet tongue in cheek reflection on what needs to be done at the end of life. Wonderfully practical, this treatise written by a palliative care nurse and Zen Buddhist, provides authentic information of how to handle a body when it has deceased and explains the person's......more

Goodreads review by Janet on January 21, 2020

An excellent addition to the shelf of life and the challenges thereof--somewhere between 'How Can I Help?' and Montaigne's essays, between Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Ram Dass--an examination both personal and philosophical. If the factual information, about the process of dying, the funeral business......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on February 21, 2019

Well, this made me think about death even more than I usually do, but I found Tisdale's thoughts on it and on the process of dying to be helpful and sometimes illuminating. I have no doubt that all of this would resonate even more with someone either suffering from a terminal illness or helping someo......more