Perfect Endings: A Conscious Approach to Dying and Death

With lucidity & compassion we are shown how the death experience is an expansion into a wider dimension of our being. As we move through our dying process, all the strength & wisdom we've gained in our lifetime is called forth. In a series of stories that give us glimpses into the inner workings of how we die, Robert Sachs, who works as a professional hospice counsellor, offers us a bouquet of transforming moments that led each person to their interior landscape. We are gifted the journeying in tandem with these souls & given different solutions to the task of letting go of life. Very helpful when our Poppa was passing on to his next Great Adventure.

Sachs is a hospice social worker who has counseled many people faced with death. The book comments on several cases he faced, the most moving account being that of his father's death. In Sachs's long story of his client "Michael"'s dying process, he provides guidelines for approaching death that are worth personal investigation. He gives a good sense of what it must be like at the end. Sachs talks about rituals in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (chanting, breathing, focus) that ease the passage into the final moment on earth. I have thought very little about death, refused to be present at my parents' deaths, and generally avoided it all. This book has motivated me to find out more about dying and to plan how I will meet my own death if I am granted the privilege of knowing I will die within a certain period of time. It has also made me an advocate of death and dying education for all of us.