Back to "Nothing to Fear"

In July 2023, I wrote that we very much liked "The In-between" by Vlahos and then tried "Nothing to Fear" by J. McFadden but gave it up.  We thought it was too similar to what we had just read.  Recently, we tried Nothing to Fear again.  This time, Lynn really liked the whole book.  She even got a paper copy in order to have a paper copy handy for returning to various pages and parts.

I am confident that all animals have a built-in tendency to avoid death and that includes humans.  That tendency plus religious ideas of various kinds make a strong force to avoid and fear death. If I am living a good and satisfying life and if I don't want to leave my loved ones, I don't plan to overdo and try being too cozy or disrespectful of death.  But I do think that is freeing to put dying in perspective.  As I age, I want to avoid leaving Lynn alone but I realize that at advanced ages, death becomes increasingly likely.