Wendy MacNaughton

How to Say Goodbye

Emma Bose

I’ve been in awe of the Zen Hospice Center’s work ever since I came across BJ Miller’s Ted Talk. This delicate distillation lends a framework for approaching the (ineffable) inevitable with presence and open palms. Serves as accompaniment to a former prof’s work, “The Heart of the Hereafter: Love Stories from the End of Life”. Forever indebted to Marcia who taught me to look at “both sides of the tapestry” and hold death and life in equal reverence. 

Excerpted from Miller’s gorgeous foreword—
“May this book be a portal—a way for us to move beyond the unwise territory of trying to “do it right” and into the transcendent terrain of noticing what we can notice, loving who we love, and letting death—like life—surprise us with its ineffable beauty.”

How to Say Goodbye

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