Title: Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them) Pdf A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
“In its loving, fierce specificity, this book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live. . . . Tisdale does not write to allay anxieties but to acknowledge them, and she brings death so close, in such detail and with such directness, that something unusual happens, something that feels a bit taboo. She invites not just awe or dread—but our curiosity. And why not? We are, after all, just 'future corpses pretending we don’t know.'” —New York Times“Tisdale (Violation: Collected Essays), a former nurse, offers an intimate insider’s look at dying, aimed at both caregivers and mortally ill people. By turns philosophical and pragmatic, Tisdale gently prods readers to make plans while they can … Tisdale’s forthright narrative voice, charmingly bossy in style (“Be very careful about odors.... You don’t want to be the most nauseating thing that happens in the day”), is so generous and kind in spirit that readers will gladly follow along.” —Publishers Weekly“Sallie Tisdale’s elegantly understated new book pretends to be a user’s guide when in fact it’s a profound meditation. It also pretends to be about how to die. Actually, it’s about how to live.” —David Shields, bestselling author of Reality Hunger"Reading the book is like having a nice, long chat with an unsqueamish friend. . . Tisdale writes warmly, sharing what she knows with a natural gift." —Portland Tribune“When a title sets the tone for a book, readers can see themselves invited into a conversation with kindness. . . [Advice for Future Corpses] is written in a gentle tone, but without euphemisms, as you would hope to hear from the person who sits beside to tell you that you are going to die. Someday.” —popmatters.com“[Tisdale] could not be more earnest and authentic in adopting a compassionate understanding of death and dying. . . This book is packed with a great wealth of information.” —Choice ConnectPraise for Sallie Tisdale "The work of caring for others is at the center of Tisdale’s writing, and it proves an endlessly complex and engaging subject." — Laura Marsh, The New Yorker"Sallie Tisdale is the real thing, a writer who thinks like a philosopher, observes like a journalist, and sings on the page like a poet" —Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable "I read Sallie Tisdale and within a few seconds I am under her spell. It matters not whether she's writing about the tyranny of weight loss, the startling lives of blowflies, or what it's like to work in an oncology ward (she is a dedicated nurse as well as a brilliant writer), I'm all in, all the time. I will go anywhere she wants to take me. An alternate image—climbing into a submarine with Tisdale at the controls and diving down down down, into her singular sensibility, her genius for language,her love of our deeply imperfect world." —Karen Karbo, author of Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life Sallie Tisdale is the author of several books, including Violation, Talk Dirty to Me, Stepping Westward, and Women of the Way. She has received a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship, the James D. Phelan Literary Award, and was selected for the Shoenfeldt Distinguished Visiting Writer Series. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, The Antioch Review, Conjunctions, and Tricycle. In addition to her award-winning writing career, Tisdale has been a nurse for many years, including a decade in palliative care. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Visit her online at SallieTisdale.com.
“In its loving, fierce specificity, this book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live.” —The New York Times
We Are All Future Corpses
Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking, yet practical perspective on death and dying in Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them). Informed by her many years working as a nurse, with more than a decade in palliative care, Tisdale provides a frank, direct, and compassionate meditation on the inevitable.
From the sublime (the faint sound of Mozart as you take your last breath) to the ridiculous (lessons on how to close the sagging jaw of a corpse), Tisdale leads the reader through the peaks and troughs of death with a calm, wise, and humorous hand. Advice for Future Corpses is more than a how-to manual or a spiritual bible: it is a graceful compilation of honest and intimate anecdotes based on the deaths Tisdale has witnessed in her work and life, as well as stories from cultures, traditions, and literature around the world.
Tisdale explores all the heartbreaking, beautiful, terrifying, confusing, absurd, and even joyful experiences that accompany the work of dying, including:
A Good Death: What does it mean to die “a good death”? Can there be more than one kind of good death? What can I do to make my death, or the deaths of my loved ones, good?
Communication: What to say and not to say, what to ask, and when, from the dying, loved ones, doctors, and more.
Last Months, Weeks, Days, and Hours: What you might expect, physically and emotionally, including the limitations, freedoms, pain, and joy of this unique time.
Bodies: What happens to a body after death? What options are available to me after my death, and how do I choose—and make sure my wishes are followed?
Grief: “Grief is the story that must be told over and over...Grief is the breath after the last one.”
Beautifully written and compulsively readable, Advice for Future Corpses offers the resources and reassurance that we all need for planning the ends of our lives, and is essential reading for future corpses everywhere.
Practical You don't have to know anyone that is dying (though we all are in process), nor do you have to have a terminal diagnosis to enjoy and find benefit from this well written, informative book. I am in a book group and this is an excellent book to use to begin to explore one's emotions about death and dying. Even after working in hospice and being in the health care field for over 30 years, I found a lot of benefit from this book. As such, I find myself paying even closer attention to my feelings and words around the living and the dying. Blessings to Sallie Tisdale for a wonderfully useful book.The book I've been searching for In a world where the global anti-aging industry will top $400 billion in 2018, it Is astonishing to me how little public discourse there is about the biggest psychological challenge facing every one of us. I’m a 70 year old psychologist, and In the privacy of my office or in the intimate conversations with friends who are passing 40, 50, 60, 70…I hear the almost universal fears of aging and death, often in a throwaway joke meant to hide the underlying unease. Everyone worries when they lose their keys that it might be incipient dementia. The relentless and futile battles against gravity are fought on a daily basis with skin creams, leg lifts, and desperate hope. We care for our ailing and dying parents but pray that our own end will be easier, later, less messy, less complicated by family dynamics and medical contradictions. And yet, here is an absolutely beautiful book about the realities of what will happen to each and every one of us, and as of the time of my writing this the book has been out for months and has gotten only 9 reviews. It does seem that the one cultural note we play to handle mortality is denial. I’ve been searching for years for a book that tells the truth without sugar coating or delicacy but with great compassion and respect, without religious dogma or false hopes, but with a loving acceptance of our mortal natures. For me, personally, and for many I know, there is no peace at all in endlessly chasing youth and lying awake at night terrified of the inevitable losses of beauty, mobility, independence, relationships, etc. But I have derived considerable comfort from Tisdale’s stark invitation to experience our common humanity in all its astonishing and mysterious complexity. I will recommend this book to all who are brave enough to open their eyes and wise enough to know that it’s a powerful answer to fear.Not always comfortable but terribly necessary, with wit and compassion I heard about this book from someone who works in palliative care. I am a psychotherapist but have always been on the phobic side when it comes to death and dying, particularly my own. Sallie Tisdale is brilliant in her decision to go through different aspecta for the dying human being as well as for the witnesses or companions. There is nothing trite about this book, no set steps and if anything, Tisdale winds up joining us in all the possibilities--in authentic fear and longing, in messiness and even humor. She joins us or she kind of welcomes the reader to join her there. Amazingly to me, Tisdale is a Buddhist who never claims any immunity from her own moods and unrealistic wishes; she is a witness also to her own humanness all the way through. She doesn't make death go away, duh!, but she makes it easier to think and talk about. This is not a book to read only once and it makes the most enlightened of us (or so we thought) reconsider our own burial plans as well. Yes, not convenient, but excellent and I think, necessary.
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