In My Time of Dying

I am an admirer of both Junger's War and Tribe so the chances to listen to him narrate his latest book was taken. In My Time of Dying is his story about his near-death experience (NDE) after a pancreatic vein burst that caused major internal bleeding.

He gives a detailed medical account of the actions of the medical staff that took him from his NDE to his survival of an event that generally take the life of the individual. During this medical emergency, he tells of his NDE meeting with his dead father. After full recovery, Junger looks at the NDE from both his journalistic eye and then that from his atheist view point with a reflective writing and telling on the physical and spiritual nature of the individual as he sees it.

Junger is a fine writer, and in this case narrator of his writing. It never felt like a matter of me agreeing or disagreeing with him, confirming one's bias is a futile exercise at the best of times anyway, but his ability to explain his NDE and added to the quality of his layman research makes for a very thoughtful telling and listening experience. My general realist attitude to all things makes me think that NDE is actually what Junger described and researched; the brain shutting down and making death palatable to the individual. What's beyond that? Not much in my opinion as no one has come back to tell the tale. What is beyond can never be known, Junger says as much, but his NDE has made him less sure of his future beyond death.

A very good read and recommended to those of us reaching the end of our days.