Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague.Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder.Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance.He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life.Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college.Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live. Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

北风的背后在哪里？北风的背后是什么样？善良可爱的小钻石知道！ 他有两个最好的朋友，它们分别出现在真实的白天和梦境中的黑夜。白天是那匹和他有着同样名字的骏马――老钻石；到了夜里，就是那位时时会来带他在夜空中旅行的美丽女士――北风。他见过真正的北风，并深得她的教诲和宠爱。他躲在她漫天飞舞的长发中，翻山越岭，漂洋过海，来到了北风的家乡，他看见北风正在台阶上坐着，身体已变得透明，他穿过她的身体来到了这个神奇的地方――北风的背后。这里没有风，太阳也消失得无影无踪，不过不要紧，仍然有充足的光。 小钻石最终还是走了，他的身体变得像雪花石膏那样洁白，人们以为他死了，其实，他又去了北风的背后。

For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

★美国2015年黑马热销书，读者、媒体双料五星好评，被称为“美国的暗黑甜心”、“有毒的鸡尾酒”、“令人一路笑个不停的奇书”。 ★一本改变你死亡观的动情之书。我们越了解死亡，就越了解生命和自己。 ★中世纪历史专业出身的“乖乖女”美国殡葬业工作六年真实记录。一个不同寻常的成 长故事，一次对生命与死亡的沉思，一场和最勇敢的朋友进行的午夜墓地之旅。 ★悲伤又搞笑、迷人又古怪、大胆直率、大开眼界、深深感动，作者犹如HBO好评美剧《六英尺下》走出来的人物，充满黑色幽默，将原本禁忌的话题变得平易近人，妙趣横生。 ★“出于对死亡的恐惧，我们建造大教堂，繁衍后代，发动战争，凌晨三点上网看猫猫视频。”——本书作者 凯特琳·道蒂 ——————————————————————————————————— 一位年轻的殡葬工来到幕后，大胆探究这门奇特行业可怕（但又迷人）的一切。 大多数人不愿思考死亡，但凯特琳•道蒂，一名二十来岁、中世纪历史专业出身的姑娘，选择在火葬场工作，将自己病态的爱好转变为一生的事业，她与形形色色的活人和死人打交道，努力在殡葬人的秘密文化中找到一席之地 。 本书讲述了一个不同寻常的成长故事，古怪的奇遇和难忘的场景比比皆是。凯特琳处理过不同种族、形状和遭遇的尸体，在这个过程中很快成为穿行于死者世界的探险家。她描写了自己如何从火化炉里清扫骨灰（有时弄得满身都是），讲述了火化和殡葬业的奇怪历史，并对不同文化中看似古怪、奇妙的丧葬习俗赞叹不已。 她用大胆直率的文风讲述了一个个令人大开眼界的故事，就像你和自己最勇敢的朋友来了一场午夜墓地之旅。她的文字真诚可信，略带讽刺的口吻不忘自嘲一番，原本禁忌的话题变得平易近人、妙趣横生。作为一名拥有从业许可、致力于非传统殡葬服务的殡葬人，凯特琳在本书中呼吁，我们身处在一个惧怕死亡的文化和社会里，应该有更妥当地处理死亡（及死者）的方式。 ——————————————————————————————————— 这本书堪称矛盾混合体，悲伤又搞笑，迷人又古怪，充满了智慧，如同一杯有毒的鸡尾酒，即使你已经失魂落魄，也会让你欲罢不能。她带给死亡一丝生命的气息。” ——多黛•斯图尔特 网站副主编 一般像这样形象又病态的书会令它的读者陷入一阵忧伤，但是道蒂女士——这位令人信任的奇幻死亡之境的向导——却让我们一路笑个不停。 ——《华盛顿邮报》 一本改变死亡观的书，不被道蒂的讲述启发是不可能的。 ——《泰晤士报》 带着你意料之中的暗黑聪慧、可能意料之外的悲悯和洞见、强大的叙事能力以及生动的描写，作为殡葬从业人员，作者呈现出了心理学家们看起来已经忘记的保护机制——幽默。 ——《新科学家》（世界第一的英国科学、科技新闻杂志） 我太享受作者的故事了，没想到在读到第二章的时候就放声大笑。作者的幽默感让这一切的描述免除了尴尬。 ——读者 Hanna.w. 如果你不怕直视死亡，这本书是为你准备的。如果你怕，这本书可能更适合你。 ——读者 Just My Op

愛里亞斯在《臨終者的孤寂》一書中討論生死，回顧過去與當代的人們對待臨終者的差異，生者與死者（或「生與死」、或「生者的生活空間與死者的墓地」）的距離由近而遠。愛里亞斯認為，臨終者之所以孤單，非但是一種心理狀態，也有不同的歷史文化作為背景。 社會的隔離機構，例如養老院，將老人與他原本熟悉的生活環境隔離開來，於是更加深孤寂的感覺。書末，作者提醒我們，生理治療在今日或許已是一個重要環節－－主要在於挽救臨終者的性命，但臨終者所需的心理上的關愛，或許能使瀕死的過程更溫暖一些。

A SCIENTIST'S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress. Then, Dr. Alexander's own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors considered stopping treatment, Alexander's eyes popped open. He had come back. Alexander's recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself. Alexander's story is not a fantasy. Before he underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. Today Alexander is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition. This story would be remarkable no matter who it happened to. That it happened to Dr. Alexander makes it revolutionary. No scientist or person of faith will be able to ignore it. Reading it will change your life.