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Fear of death is primal and universal, an inexorable part of the human condition. And yet, it’s such a private pain, rarely discussed. Our death-phobic Western culture perpetuates denial and avoidance. Whether you fear your own death or the death of loved ones, whether you fear being dead or the process of dying, whether your anxiety is the background noise of everyday life or the deafening din of existential crisis, there’s relief at hand.

Informed by over 40 years of clinical experience, this transformative book contains a curated collection of the most resonant philosophical, spiritual, psychological, and practical answers to death anxiety. From the ancient wisdom of sages and shamans to contemporary, empirically derived approaches, it offers time-tested tools to overcome your fear of death and live more freely and fully. Abundant guided exercises facilitate self-reflection, insight, and application. This authoritative yet accessible manual for mortals empowers you to embrace your mortality and awaken to your aliveness.

Dr. L. Saxon Elliott is a practicing clinical psychologist, death doula, and end-of-life educator. An ardent evangelist of the death-positive movement, she founded The Examined Death™, a suite of mortality-facing resources to transform our individual and collective relationship with death... and with life. She contemplates existential issues from her remote woodland retreat in the hills of Western Massachusetts. Morton, her feline companion, doesn't care about such matters. Morton has nine lives. Morton has not read her book.