Near the Exit: Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper
by Erickson, Lori
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After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head on, with the eye of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death, from Egypt�s Valley of the Kings and Mayan temples, to a Colorado cremation pyre and Day of the Dead celebrations, to Maori settlements and tourist-destination graveyards. Erickson reflects on mortality�the ways we avoid it, the ways we cope with it, and the ways life is made more precious by accepting it�in places as far away as New Zealand and as close as the nursing home up the street. Throughout her personal journey and her travels, Erickson �helps us to see that one of the most life-affirming things we can do is to invite death along for the ride.
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- Lifeways Books & Gifts (US)
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- 9780664265670
- Title
- Near the Exit
- Author
- Erickson, Lori
- Book Condition
- New New
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0664265677
- ISBN 13
- 9780664265670
- Publisher
- Westminster John Knox Press
- Date Published
- 2019
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