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Ware first shared the insights in a 2009 blog post, "Regrets of the Dying". [1] [2] The blog post was widely shared worldwide and by 2012 had been read by eight million people. [3] In 2012 Ware expanded her blog post into a book memoir, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, which was translated into 27 languages. [4] [3]
Stephen Levine (July 17, 1937 – January 17, 2016) was an American poet, author and teacher best known for his work on death and dying. He is one of a generation of pioneering teachers who, along with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg, have made the teachings of Theravada Buddhism more widely available to students in the West.
The desire to reach hearts is wise.” “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”
— Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian, physician and humanist (27 October 1553), while being burned at the stake for heresy on a pyre of his own books "Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." [11]: 69–70 [17] [note 60] — Lady Jane Grey, de facto Queen of England and Ireland (12 February 1554), quoting Jesus prior to her beheading
Beginning when clerical scholars formulated the Ars Moriendi into a book, The Book of the Craft of Dying, easily spread the concept of the good death throughout England. [13] More specifically, the Book and the good death concept heavily influenced common Londoners' perceptions and understandings of death. [ 14 ]
The Sickness unto Death (Danish: Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. A work of Christian existentialism, the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, which he terms "the sin of despair".
Gone From My Sight", also known as the "Parable of Immortality" and "What Is Dying" is a poem (or prose poem) presumably written by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher (1813–1903), cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. At least three publications credit the poem to Luther Beecher in printings shortly after his death in 1904. [1]
Betty (Jean) Eadie (born 1942) is an American author of several books on near-death experiences (NDEs). Her best-known book is Embraced by the Light, (1992) describing her NDE. It was followed by The Awakening Heart (1996).