Title

As I lay dying: meditations upon returning.

Description

Book by Richard John Neuhaus about his own encounter with death.

Identifier

2499729

465049311

Creator

Neuhaus, Richard John

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2002

Program air date: May 26, 2002

Publisher

Basic Books

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers include a list of names of famous thinkers, scientists and writers and a description of the course of the author's illness, as well as notes on several incidents described in the book. e.g. "Story of Albert", "Story of Charlie", p. 43. Also included are several questions: "What is it like really being sick? - How many people have you watch die? - Blood - what does it smell like? - Is there such a thing as a peaceful death? " -- Notes from back endpapers: "Young parishioner took pictures - looked ghastly. - Mim - my sister - kept a journal, lost a husband and son. - No end of visitors. - Women seem to be more at home with helplessness." -- Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book. -- Examples: p. 22: "...Victorians of the nineteenth century talked incessantly about death but were silent about sex, whereas today we talk incessantly about sex and are silent about death." -- p. 126: "Life includes dying, but life does not include death." - p. 157: "I do think that women know more because they become pregnant and give birth, because there are those long months when they cannot help but ponder the beginning of life, and therefore the end of life."

Subject

"Death--Religious aspects--Christianity."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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