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This a beautiful, tough, important book. Don’t let the subject of pain and the end of life put you off, because this is a profound meditation on how to live, on love, and one gorgeous human spirit. -- Anne Lamott, author of essays and multiple books, including Somehow: Thoughts on Love For decades I’ve admired Mark Dowie’s fearlessness as an investigative reporter. But it’s a different kind of bravery he shows in this book: the courage to take on a subject that most of us tiptoe around—and to do so in a way that is compassionate, sensitive, and deeply moving. -- Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis and other books Dying well is one of life’s greatest challenges. In this short but poignant memoir Mark Dowie finds the method where he least expected it to be, and shares it with the world. -- Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor; Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley By the end of this book, readers will have a repository of questions and ideas with which to open a Death Café of their own, or to approach the subject with some aplomb instead of fear. -- Doris Ober * Point Reyes Light *

"""For decades I’ve admired Mark Dowie’s fearlessness as an investigative reporter. But it’s a different kind of bravery he shows in this book: the courage to take on a subject that most of us tiptoe around—and to do so in a way that is compassionate, sensitive, and deeply moving."" * Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight, King Leopold’s Ghost, and many other books *"

"""This a beautiful, tough, important book. Don’t let the subject of pain and the end of life put you off, because this is a profound meditation on how to live, on love, and one gorgeous human spirit."" -- Anne Lamott, author of essays and multiple books, including Somehow: Thoughts on Love ""For decades I’ve admired Mark Dowie’s fearlessness as an investigative reporter. But it’s a different kind of bravery he shows in this book: the courage to take on a subject that most of us tiptoe around—and to do so in a way that is compassionate, sensitive, and deeply moving."" -- Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis and other books ""Dying well is one of life’s greatest challenges. In this short but poignant memoir Mark Dowie finds the method where he least expected it to be, and shares it with the world."" -- Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor; Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley ""By the end of this book, readers will have a repository of questions and ideas with which to open a Death Café of their own, or to approach the subject with some aplomb instead of fear."" -- Doris Ober * Point Reyes Light *"

For decades I’ve admired Mark Dowie’s fearlessness as an investigative reporter. But it’s a different kind of bravery he shows in this book: the courage to take on a subject that most of us tiptoe around—and to do so in a way that is compassionate, sensitive, and deeply moving. * Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight, King Leopold’s Ghost, and many other books *

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Mark Dowie is the former publisher and editor of Mother Jones magazine, the founder of Talking Point Radio, and previous editor-at-large of InterNation, a feature syndicate based in Paris. He recently retired from the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where he taught environmental reporting and foreign correspondence. Dowie’s works have won nineteen journalism awards, including four National Magazine Awards, a George Polk Award, a William Allen White Gold Medal, and a Media Alliance’s Meritorious Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters by John F. Kennedy University. Dowie is the author of seven previous books.

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