
The Undiscovered Country
Conversations about death and dying
Mary Brown(Author)
Kate Cairns Associates (Publisher)
Published on 1. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-910930-03-8 (ISBN)
Description
In today’s society, death has become sanitised and distant, happening away from us in hospitals, mortuaries and funeral homes, or is experienced vicariously and trivialised through television or films. Previously part of everyday life and surrounded by sacred rituals, death seems to have become something dark and frightening, to be largely ignored until we are forced to encounter it directly.
Mary Brown confronts the taboos surrounding death by talking to those who have lost loved ones and to those who work with the dying and their families. In doing so, she brings out their unique experiences of and perspectives on death and shows that it is not something to fear, but part of life, to be acknowledged and discussed openly.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
444 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910930-03-8 (9781910930038)
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Mary Brown grew up in Port Townsend, Washington, about two hours from Seattle on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula. She visited Seattle regularly during the 1980s and 1990s and graduated from the University of Washington in 2001. Mary currently lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the home of two used bookstores and Moravian Book Shop, said to be the oldest bookstore in America and among the oldest in the world.