ABOUT THE BOOK: \;
\nA near-fatal healt h emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death&mdash\;and what mig ht follow&mdash\;by the bestselling author of Tribe and The P erfect Storm.
\nFor years as an award-winning war reporter\, Se bastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 wh ile spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain\, Junger was rushe d to the hospital by ambulance. Once there\, he began slipping away. As bl ackness encroached\, he was visited by his dead father\, inviting Junger t o join him. &ldquo\;It&rsquo\;s okay\,&rdquo\; his father said. &ldquo\;Th ere&rsquo\;s nothing to be scared of. I&rsquo\;ll take care of you.&rdquo\ ; That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not ha ve survived.
\nThis experience spurred Junger&mdash\;a confirmed ath eist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical&mdash\;to und ertake a scientific\, philosophical\, and deeply personal examination of m ortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the bru tal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ord inary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person\, emotionally and spiritually\, when forced to reckon with such existential questions?
\nIn My Time of D ying is part medical drama\, part searing autobiography\, and part rationa l inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.
\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \;
\nSebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of < em>THE PERFECT STORM\, FIRE\, A DEATH IN BELMONT\, WAR\, TRIBE\, FREEDOM and IN MY TIME OF DYING. \; As an award-winning journali st\, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at A BC News\, he has covered major international news stories around the world \, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. Ju nger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film "Restrepo"\, a featu re-length documentary (co-directed with Tim Hetherington)\, was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. \;&nbs p\;
\nSebastian Junger is the founder and director of Vets Town Hall .
\nJunger has also written for magazines including Harper's\, The N ew York Times Magazine\, National Geographic Adventure\, Outside and Men's Journal. His reporting on Afghanistan in 2000\, profiling Northern Allian ce leader Ahmed Shah Massoud\, who was assassinated just days before 9/11\ , became the subject of the National Geographic documentary "Into the Forb idden Zone\," and introduced America to the Afghan resistance fighting the Taliban. \;
\nHe lives in New York City and Cape Cod.
\n< span style="text-decoration: underline\;">ABOUT THE PRESENTATION:
\nAt each program\, authors speak for about forty-f ive minutes\, followed by a short question and answer session. A hardcover copy of the book is included with the purchase of your ticket.
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