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

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

by StudsTerkel (Author)

Synopsis

We will all die. Yet modern culture fears and avoids the subject of death. This book deals sensitively with a universal experience. 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 Will the Circle be Unbroken? , a wide range of people address the final experience and its impact on the present in which we live. As well as the elderly and the sick, Terkel uses his talent to draw on the experiences of those who work closely with the dying - paramedics, police, fire-fighters, doctors and the recently bereaved. In talking about the ultimate and unknowable culmination in 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. The result is a universal and moving account of death and religion.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 10 Apr 2003

ISBN 10: 1862075603
ISBN 13: 9781862075603

Author Bio
Studs Terkel is the author of many books of oral history, including Working. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Good War. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.