Ray Robertson

A continuation of the author’s previous book on the subject, Why Not: Fifteen Reasons to Live . A novelist who trained in philosophy at university, Robertson draws on both disciplines. How to Die combines a survey of Western literature’s most compelling works on the subject of death with a memoir-driven argument for a mindful relationship with mortality. The recent development of the “Death Café” phenomenon—essentially 21st century salons that meet “to increase awareness of death to help...