Ultimate journey : death and dying in the world's major religions
"Like taxes, death is inevitable. Everyone experiences it sooner or later. This book offers perspectives on death and dying from all major religions, written by experts in each of those religions. Focusing on the major world traditions, Ultimate Journey offers important information about what death and dying means to those practicing these faiths. The second part of the book adds a necessary and truly unique perspective - a personal look at how people actually die in the various world religions, as told by a hospital chaplain, with anecdotes and experiences that bring the death process to life, so to speak." "Each chapter engages the theology of each religion, using quotes from the literature of their respective scriptural traditions, to explain the process of dying, death, and the afterlife. In doing so, each author draws on the history of his respective tradition and looks at real-life figures, exemplars of the tradition, showing how practitioners view death and hope to one day engage the death process themselves."--Jacket
Nonfiction
ix, 197 pages ; 25 cm
9780313356087, 0313356084
229020817
Introduction / Steven J. Rosen
Judaism : the journey of the soul / Arthur Seltzer
Preparation for eternal life : Christian teachings on death and dying / Francis V. Tiso
Death and dying in Islam / Hussam S. Timani
Awakening to mortality : Buddhist views of death and dying / John M. Thompson
Hindu models of enlightened death / Peter Medley
Conclusion: A shepherd in the trenches : one chaplain's work with the dying / David Carter