What is Death?: How Understanding Mortality Can Help Us to Live

‘One of the greatest thinkers of the age’ – The Dalai Lama

'One of the five saints of the 20th century' – TIME magazine

Death affects us all. It casts a shadow over our lives and is something we try to put far away from us, as we continue to grapple with the enduring questions: What is death? Why do we fear it? What happens after we die? Is there anything permanent?

In What is Death?, J. Krishnamurti examines these timeless questions with the insight and wisdom that have made his philosophy influential around the world, exploring:

• The nature of death and the fear of dying
• Ideas of immortality and permanence
• The relationship between living, love and death
• The possibility of renewal through our understanding and acceptance of death

As Krishnamurti shows, living and dying are not separate experiences. By meeting and understanding death, we are able to remove the divide between living and dying and instead welcome love, the end of sorrow and the possibility of a new way of living.

Profound, compassionate and insightful, What is Death? is a concise introduction to one of humanity's most enduring questions from one of the twentieth century's most influential spiritual thinkers.