How to Avoid Spiritual Anguish in Our Dying DaysHow to Avoid Spiritual Anguish in Our Dying Days
Preparing for a Good End

How to Avoid Spiritual Anguish in Our Dying Days

Preparing for death can be a profoundly healing journey.
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This is part 1 in Preparing for a Good End

In this series, we’ll examine ways of making meaning in the face of death, offering tools founded in traditional wisdom and scientific evidence to help our readers live well right to the very end.

According to palliative care experts, preparing for death can be a profoundly healing journey.

There’s a problem with death—it causes despair and suffering. In our modern culture devoid of traditions, death has been dehumanized. We’ve lost the art of dying well, knowledge passed down from family to family just a few generations ago.