myths

Contents

Dedications

Introduction

1. The present – I am dying
2. The final frontier
3. Which of the three biggest killers is most likely to get me?
4. How would I like to die?
5. The social taboo of death
6. A culture terrified of death
7. Can you have a dignified death?
8. An Irish Wake
9. How to die 2
10. When are we dead?
11. The sequence of my death
12. Karma
13. How am I doing at sixty-seven?
14. Dying inside? Yes!
15. Sam my dog
16. Anecdote – reporting my death
17. Seventy-four
18. Downsizing
19. Writing the Death Diaries
20. The elderly lady and Hat
21. Reassessment
22. I’m still not dead
23. Downsizing – We did it!
24. Life and creativity
25. Which killer?
26. Still waiting
27. From beyond the grave
28. Which of us will go first?
29. Life goes on
30. Fit and healthy
31. Death can wait another day
32. So what have I got to live for?
33. Liz’s burial wishes
34. Leaving my body to medical science
35. Too old
36. Deaths of friends
37. Rites and ceremonies
38. Guides for death
39. Death of a parent
40. Legacies
41. Current situation
42. Indecision
43. Present day – death of politics
44. Cunning plans for the future
45. Cataracts
46. Being an old man
47. We are all dying
48. Reflections
49. What happens after death?
50. When we are dead?
51. Medical science
52. Lessons from a long life
53. Death rituals – Bali
54. Religious ceremonies
55. Spiritualism
56. Air burials
57. Life after death
58. State of health update
59. Death is natural – We are programmed in our DNA
60. Mexico – The Day of the Dead
61. What actually will happen as we die
62. Benefits of being old
63. This book is frustrating – I’m still here!
64. Epitaphs
65. Where does it lead?
66. Post death revelations
67. Celebration of my life
68. Death of my Dad
69. Enjoying the sun
70. More death rituals
71. Life after death
72. Mum and spiritualism
73. Egocentric solipsism and other death philosophies
74. My Mum’s death
75. Lies
76. Souls, spirits and essence
77. Spirituality
78. How am I doing at seventy-six?
79. The existentials – Sartre, De Beauvois and Camus
80. Quantum Death
81. Fast or slow?
82. Death Cleaning
83. The Native American girl on the Greyhound Bus
84. Assisted dying
85. Thanks for DEATH!
86. What’s going to happen to me?
87. Perhaps there is no death after all?
88. This could be the last time! May be the last time, I don’t know.
89. Deathbed regrets
90. How is this book going to end?

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