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In My Time of Dying
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife | Sebastian Junger
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A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on deathand what might followby the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm. For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. Its okay, his father said. Theres nothing to be scared of. Ill take care of you. That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived. This experience spurred Jungera confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empiricalto undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when forced to reckon with such existential questions? In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.
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Mpcacher
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Junger is a well respected author and military veteran. After facing his own near death experience, which included a visit from his dead father, he researches the phenomena and the possible science behind it. It is a fascinating story and although some of the science was above my head, I quite enjoyed it. What happens after death is something that may possibly never be explained, but thinking about it is something most of us do. 4/5 stars!

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Anna40
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I‘m halfway through&could hang in there to the end but I don‘t have the patience anymore.The reason why I bail is: I wish Junger had written more as the person who experienced it&less as the journalist. Also there are pages that read as if taken straight from a text book for medical students. True there are a lot of personal moments but Junger lost me once he got into medical history. It‘s time to move on to another book.

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451Degrees
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Sebastian is a journalist who is no stranger to danger. He‘s taken enemy fire in Afghanistan and had a near drowning while surfing. But only after a burst pancreatic aneurysm resulting in emergency surgery does he begin to really wonder what happens to us after we die. He takes a deep dive into what it means to be alive from a physics standpoint but also finding across religions and cultures people experience similar things while dying.

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