Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death (Hardback)
Richard Holloway (author)- In stock online
To face our own death is, quite literally, the last thing most of us will do - if we're conscious enough at the time to do it even then. Even if we wanted to, the chances are we won't have much control over how we leave the scene.
Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just something that happens to us?
Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men and women towards peaceful deaths.
In Waiting for the Last Bus, he presents a positive, meditative and profound exploration of the many important lessons we can learn from death: facing up to the limitations of our bodies as they falter, reflecting on our failings, and forgiving ourselves and others. But in a modern world increasingly wary of acknowledging mortality, this is also a stirring plea to reacquaint ourselves with death.
Facing and welcoming death gives us the chance to think about not only the meaning of our own life, but of life itself; and can mean the difference between ordinary sorrow and unbearable regret at the end.
Radical, joyful and moving, Waiting for the Last Bus is an invitation to reconsider life's greatest mystery by one of the most important and beloved religious leaders of our time.
'...flawless, pitch perfect prose that explores with unflinching and unsentimental fortitude the taboo of death.' - The Observer
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781786890214
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 298 g
Dimensions: 220 x 144 x 20 mm
Edition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Holloway is at his most entertaining - and moving' - Daily Telegraph
'Holloway writes with passion and honesty at all times, and the result is compelling.' - The Guardian
'...flawless, pitch perfect prose that explores with unflinching and unsentimental fortitude the taboo of death.' - The Observer
'The record of a mind too large, too curious and far too generous to be confined within any single religious denomination.' - Philip Pullman
'Thoughtful, playful, courageous and deeply altruistic . . . a fine companion for anyone who wishes to live a life of any depth.' - A.L. Kennedy
'A very wise man indeed. Inspiring. Fascinating. Full of hope.' - Fay Weldon
'Written with the integrity, intelligence and wit that we expect from Richard Holloway.' - Karen Armstrong
'A deeply lovable man; and what a wonderful book he has written.' - Observer
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