{"product_id":"on-our-way-the-final-passage-through-life-and-death-hardcover","title":"On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Kastenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country--and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of the inevitable end. In this book a preeminent and eminently wise writer on death and dying proposes a new way of understanding our last transition. A fresh exploration of the final passage through life and perhaps through death, his work deftly interweaves historical and contemporary experiences and reflections to demonstrate that we are always on our way. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a remarkable range of observations--from psychology, anthropology, religion, biology, and personal experience--Robert Kastenbaum re-envisions life's forward-looking progress, from early-childhood bedtime rituals to the many small rehearsals we stage for our final separation. Along the way he illuminates such moments and ideas as becoming a \"corpsed person,\" going down to earth or up in flames, respecting or abusing (and eating) the dead, coping with \"too many dead,\" conceiving and achieving a \"good death,\" undertaking the journey of the dead, and learning to live through the scrimmage of daily life fully knowing that Eternity does not really come in a designer flask. Profound, insightful, often moving, this look at death as many cultures await it or approach it enriches our understanding of life as a never-ending passage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWitty, exuberant, mind-opening. Only a team of psychologists, philosophers, cultural anthropologists, researchers, clinicians, and humanists--a Kastenbaum-- could have produced such a brilliant synthesis of theory, folklore, art, and astonishing new insights. If one book could keep us company on our way through that final passage, this is it. But why wait?--Sandra Bertman, author of \u003ci\u003eFacing Death: Images, Insights and Interventions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you're going to die, you might as well know what you're in for. Here Kastenbaum maps the territory of the other side, attending to death and its denizens through the ages and across the continents, always with empathy and often with wit.\"--Stephen Prothero, author of \u003ci\u003ePurified by Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reading Robert Kastenbaum's new book, \u003ci\u003eOn Our Way, \u003c\/i\u003e is itself a wondrous, illuminating, surprising journey. Issues of death, and therefore life, are explored along the way in this wise and profound book. This is a well-written, wide-ranging survey of the place of death in life, and the possibilities for life after death in a variety of cultural settings.\"--Gary Laderman, author of \u003ci\u003eRest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Kastenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University. He is the author of many works, including \u003ci\u003eThe Psychology of Death \u003c\/i\u003e(now in its third edition, 2001), \u003ci\u003eDeath, Society, and Human Experience \u003c\/i\u003e(now in its eighth edition, 2004), and \u003ci\u003eDorian, Graying: Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having? \u003c\/i\u003e(1995).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 460\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.39 x 9.28 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 20, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42756333863008,"sku":"9780520218802","price":86.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/UxK5HwAXiN9780520218802.webp?v=1779249106","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/on-our-way-the-final-passage-through-life-and-death-hardcover","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}