This remarkable book--at times heart-breaking, at times humorous--is dazzling for its profound honesty. Like most of us, Mark Wakely had always put death in the too-hard basket. Around death he was painfully awkward, strangely self-conscious: death-shy. He was curiously distanced from his own parents deaths. Thirty years later, he went on a journey to confront one of the most intensely personal yet universal experiences: our own mortality...