All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak Audiobook Libro.fm

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What if our dead remain with us What if closure is not the goal No matter what you believe about the afterlife what if the hereafter intersects with the here and now

Caleb Wilde author of the acclaimed memoir Confessions of a Funeral Director was a skeptic The baffling stories people told himdeathbed visions of longdead parents visits from the other sidemust be hallucinations or wishful thinking he thought But the more stories he heard and the more he learned about nonWestern understandings of body and spirit the less sure he was

All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak takes listeners on a lyrical and tender quest to encounter the hereafter As Wilde picks up bodies organizes funerals and meets with grieving families in a small town in Pennsylvania those who remain share with himand uswhat they experience in the thin places between life and death Entwining these stories with his own as a sixthgeneration funeral director and with the findings of neuroscience and the solace of faith Wilde creates a searching reverent inquiry into all the ways our dead remain with us In the process he takes on prevailing dogmas about death from a narrow Christian view of heaven and hell to secular assumptions that death is the end to poppsychology maxims that say we all need closure after our loved ones die