{"product_id":"2940170243228","title":"Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou get ready to die the way you get ready for a trip. Start by realizing you don't know the way. Read a few travel guides. Study the language, look at maps, gather equipment. Let yourself imagine what it will be like. Pack your bags. This book is one of those travel guidesamp;mdash;a guide to preparing for your own death and the deaths of people close to you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fact of death is hard to believe. Sallie Tisdale explores our fears and all the ways death and talking about death make us uncomfortableamp;mdash;but she also explores its intimacies and joys. Tisdale looks at grief, what the last days and hours of life are like, and what happens to dead bodies. \u003ci\u003eAdvice for Future Corpses\u003c\/i\u003e includes exercises designed to make you think differently about the inevitable. She includes practical advice, personal experience, a little Buddhist philosophy, and stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this isn't a book of inspiration or spiritual adviceamp;mdash;\u003ci\u003eAdvice for Future Corpses\u003c\/i\u003e is about how you can get ready. Start by admitting that we are all future corpses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HighBridge Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47099864875248,"sku":"2940170243228","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170243228_p0.jpg?v=1763706082","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170243228","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}