Literary Lives
Three Books About Life and Death
Jonathan Lear, Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life. Belknap Press, 176pp. $20 paper.
Joseph Epstein, Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life, Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life. Free Press, 304pp., $30 cloth.
Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife. Simon & Schuster, 176pp., $28 cloth.
On June 16, 2020, Sebastian Junger experienced an aneurysm that should have killed him. Because of expert doctoring and luck, it didn’t. His book, In My Time of Dying, How I Came Face-to-Face with the Idea of an Afterlife, is an account of his experience, some biographical materials that pertain to the experience itself, and existential ponderings on occurrences during his travail and its aftermath.
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