A 2021 book written by Barbara Becker, a member of our advisory board
When her earliest childhood friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Becker sets off on a quest to immerse herself in what it means to be mortal. Can we live our lives more fully knowing some day we will die? She recounts stories where life and death intersect in unexpected ways, including volunteering on a hospice floor. She inspires readers to live with the end in mind and proves that turning toward loss rather than away from it is the only true way to live life to its fullest.
Barbara Becker has dedicated more than twenty-five years to partnering with human-rights advocates around the world in pursuit of peace and interreligious understanding. She has worked with the United Nations, Human Rights First, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, and has participated in a delegation of Zen Peacemakers and Lakota elders in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She is an ordained interfaith minister who bridges the sacred and the secular, and has sat with hundreds of people at the end of their lives.
Read more about the book here.