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Will the Circle be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death and Dignity

Will the Circle be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death and Dignity

by StudsTerkel (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

Studs Terkel explores the ultimate human experience, that of death and the possibility of life afterward. Death is the one experience we all share but cannot know. In this book, a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the present in which we live. As well as the elderly and sick, Terkel uses his talent to draw on the experiences of those who work closely with the dying - paramedics, police, firefighters, doctors and the recently bereaved. In talking about the ultimate and unknowable culmination of our lives, these people give voice to their deepest beliefs and hopes, reflecting on the lives they have led and what still lies before them.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 432
 Edition: 2002 ed.
 Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 07 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 1862075115
ISBN 13: 9781862075115
Book Overview: Winner of the MIND Book of the Year 2003

Media Reviews
Thirty years ago Gore Vidal suggested to Studs Terkel that death would be a good subject for oral history; it's a subject which, after all, nobody can talk about with any genuine authority. Will the Circle be Unbroken is the result - Terkel has compiled the views and experiences of 63 death professionals (doctors, nurses, soldiers, detectives, murderers) and death amateurs (all of us, death professionals included). For all the variety of life-experience that it contains, the book is reassuringly repetitive; we all fear much the same thing and cope with it in much the same way. A poignant contribution to the neglected literature of death that is also, of course, a handbook to living well, a guide to making the most of death's long prelude.
Author Bio
Studs Terkel is the author of many books of oral history, including Working and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Good War. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.