DYING LIVINGLY by Staci Bu Shea
with a reading by Staci Bu Shea at 6.30pm
Thursday May 15, 6pm
Part studious, part visceral, Dying Livingly is a collection of short essays written in the first few years of the author’s holistic deathcare research and practice. With a focus on the truth of impermanence and the material cultures of death and dying, the writing reaches toward a future of compassionate, community-centered deathcare.
With fervor and deep reverence, this collection demonstrates that what is needed above all is a presence—simple but challenging—that refuses to look away as life slips from our grip. In this light, the writing details lessons in what it means to be prepared for death but also impossibly ready. Death is a horizon that inspires us to live fully, with the vulnerability necessary in the transformative process of giving and receiving care.
Dying Livingly is Solution 305 from the Solution series edited by Ingo Niermann, designed by Zak Group, and published by Sternberg Press.
