In My Time of Dying - How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death-and what might follow-by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm. For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. ''It''s okay,'' his father said. ''There''s nothing to be scared of. I''ll take care of you.'' That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived. This experience spurred Junger-a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical-to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when forced to reckon with such existential questions? In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.

About the author

Sebastian Junger is the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and A Death in Belmont. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. He lives in New York.

Product details

• Authors: Sebastian Junger, Junger Sebastian
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2024
• EAN: 9780008670191
• ISBN: 978-0-00-867019-1
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 222 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; PHILOSOPHY / General, RELIGION / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, Autobiography: general, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Afterlife & Reincarnation, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Philosophy, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, The afterlife, reincarnation and past lives, The afterlife, reincarnation & past lives, Aspects Of Religion (Non-Christian), Religion: death and dying