Kevin Toolis

An excellent book and an easy enjoyable read. Kevin Toolis writes from his personal experience about life and death. This includes his journalistic travels to third world countries, war-ravaged areas, and his “own backyard” - so to speak - in the “troubles” of Northern Ireland. Ultimately though this is a deeply personal account about how he has dealt with loss of his own family members. Highly recommended. I would also strongly recommended his earlier book Rebel Hearts.

Author elaborates on the importance of community and our essential role to embrace our mortality. As he wrote, to me human is to be mortal, to be mortal is to love, live, and die amidst the lives of everyone around us. To embrace our mortal lives. Because our life is our responsibility, we must bear the burden of mortality, then to strive in grace to carry that weight for ourselves and help others with their burden

Fascinating

Loved reading about Irish wakes and what we are missing here in the USA as the long transplanted descendants. Recommend this one to all the far-flung Irish.

An interesting meditation on death and dying as a part of living. Attempts to answer the question of how to live with death in our ordinary lives. Explores how the abandonment of death rituals leads us to fear our own mortality.