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How should we conquer death? Our eternal existential question. The unspoken why of all action and thought. Death is all around us but unseen. A shadow companion who haunts our gnawing anxieties over what the future holds. The virus. The stab of doubt in every lump beneath the skin. Can anyone overcome the fear of dying?

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Is a good death possible? Yes, absolutely, and Kevin Toolis shows you how. In a meditation that spans from the modern Irish wake to Aztec funeral traditions, the secrets of dying well are distilled into nine simple rules to transform your life - and death.

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Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of men and women who, for the twenty-five years of the IRA's war with Britain formed the backbone of its effort. Each chapter explores a world in which history and the republican (and loyalist) interpretation of it dominate lives and deaths. Rebel Hearts does not seek to explain the roots of the conflict in Northern Ireland in a direct historical narrative form, but constructs, and reconstructs, its history ...

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An intimate, lyrical memoir exploring the ancient rite of the Irish wake, and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of death - BEING MORTAL meets THE LAST ACT OF LOVE

This intimate and lyrical memoir explores the ancient rite of the Irish wake, extending this into a consideration of traditional Irish responses to overcoming our fear of death. From the author of "Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within The IRA's Soul".

A detailed and revealing portrait of the world of the IRA, "Rebel Hearts" explains and uncovers the roots of the conflict in Northern Ireland through a series of profiles of IRA men. "As romantic as it is violent . . . Toolis has captured its pulse in prose that often approached poetry".--"San Francisco Chronicle".