Publisher's Synopsis
A book of thoughts, ideas, and observations about human death and life. To some, our demise is unfair, unwarranted, a bad idea, to others a blessing. There are opinions, different ways to look upon the end of (our) life's journey. To Die For comes from an overheard dinner table conversation... "Oh, Suzie, your scalloped potatoes are just to die for." Privately you might ask why and really, would you die for them? We often tend to over-dramatize our feelings and then again, sometimes not enough. Life is an emotional experience and sometimes even funny. Death is rarely amusing and for most a sad and bleak experience, it presents dark faces challenging us to think beyond, searching for purpose and peaceful resolution. Some, with faith, turn to unproven fantasies they have clung to since birth. Strange how five days a week people require rational explanations and on the sabbath or at a funeral all pretense of reason and logic fades or is dropped for a reality no one has seen or proven. Raise a question about the afterlife and most are shunned and certainly not electable. Death, to date, can only be compared to life, but there may be better ways and means to understand this polar opposite of life on Earth. The author is known primarily as a fine artist who poses unconventional questions in unconventional. He presents and debates traditional ideas along with others we are not used to but might find useful amidst the orthodox funereal traditions most experience. For most death is a loss and for others opportunity. Scientists agree, in our universe, nothing is lost forever in philosophy nothing is something. Finally, the book is divided into parts, the first on death and the second on life. A demonstration, as if we needed one, they are related. How and why is an eternal question, possibilities rich for exploration to the artist.
