*Book* : Death and Dying ( Boundaries of Consciousness – Wasan Conversations)
*Edited by*: Sudhir Kakar
*Published by*: Penguin/Viking

It’s a collection of essays by different scholars and intellectuals related to issues surrounding the inevitable end of life—death. The book explores a number of areas, such as the objective evidence for an afterlife, survival after death, body and soul, reincarnation, near-death experiences, the practice of death, and writings on death by poets John Keats and Rabindranath Tagore and Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung.

It also covers C. G. Jung’s thoughts on death and afterdeath, the Jain’s tradition of Santhara — liberating the soul by fasting oneself to death — and finally about palliative care and psycho-oncology.

Books help us understand how death is perceived by different people and traditions and help dispel the fear about it to an extent.