In her warm and wise book, we learn how to turn this dream into a personal reality that will meet not only our deep-felt needs and desires but also those of our family and loved ones.Įveryone has a story to tell, it's simply a matter of asking the right questions. As there are no opportunities for rehearsals or do-overs, Bennett is committed to helping us better understand dying as the last-but not the least-chapter of life, and to helping us dream what this chapter might look like. She's witnessed the dying process unfold in beautiful ways, with gifts for all involved, and she's seen it devolve into a series of anguished mishaps that leave the family praying for an early transition. In Dying Made Easy(er), she provides the resources to address this pressing need.īennett, who is the co-founder of Compassionate Crossings in Sacramento, has seen it all. Bennett believes it is imperative that we-as a community-are aware of how to find help when faced with death and dying. Her Dying Made Easy(er) is both a handbook of pertinent information and a medley of informed suggestions for us to consider when experiencing or sharing the phenomenon that is the end of life. In his journey through Istanbul's mosques and palaces, the archeological sites around ancient Ephesus, and, ultimately, the strange and mystical terrain of Cappadocia, he comes to understand the epochal meaning of the bone box.In her book Dying Made Easy(er), Myra Bennett guides readers through the diverse phases and considerations of the end of life by an experienced traveler who's spent many hours "as a guest in the sacred place of the dying." Bennett, a hospice nurse and certified end of life doula, who has also grappled with death in her personal life, invites us to contemplate dying from many different angles: legal, social, physical, psychological, and spiritual.
Joseph Travers, an American sent to Turkey to evaluate the archeological dig, soon finds himself pulled into the web of betrayal, reprisal, and violence.
She knows that people will kill to obtain the relics - and to suppress the box's other contents, documents that could alter Western history. Sophia Altay, the beautiful French-Turkish archeologist who heads the team, tries to keep the discovery secret until she can authenticate the ossuary. The box's Aramaic inscription: Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ. Well-written, fast-paced thriller that follows in the footsteps of The Da Vinci Code and Indiana Jones." - Kirkus Reviews On a hill overlooking the Aegean Sea in Turkey, an international team of archeologists discovers a stone box that first-century Jews used to rebury their dead.
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