Publisher's Synopsis
Death is a great and grand mystery and the actual act of dying is the last physical act of our lives. We can do it well, like a graceful well-rehearsed piano solo or we can do it clumsily like the twits we delightful humans can sometimes be. But if anything deserves our full attention, some preparation or some renewed clarity, death might be it. In this light-hearted, irreverent exploration of the one thing that is certain, Pritchett offers a look at all the uncertainty that precedes this final act. In a compelling mix of practical how-to advice and personal narrative, this book captures one person's adventures to make peace with her greatest nemesis - death. She offers up wisdom from her obsessive search, which has included a decade of normal research (seminars, interviews and retreats) and a lifetime of other related pursuits (digging up a dead body, necropsying her pet dog on the lawn, abandoning an MRI machine, taking flying lessons and undergoing genetic testing).
