Thursday, February 21st at 7pm, join author Katy Butler as she presents her book The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life. The book is Katy’s second book about end-of-life issues; her first was the bestselling Knocking on Heaven’s Door. We hope that you can join us for what it sure to be a fascinating and inspiring talk. Admission is free; just bring a willingness to explore this complicated topic.
About The Art of Dying Well
The Art of Dying Well will help you live well as possible for as long as possible and adapt successfully to change.
With groundbreaking insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker Katy Butler shows how to thrive (even if coping with a chronic medical condition), get the best from our fragmented health system, and make your own peaceful, well-supported “good death” more likely. This handbook of step by step preparations—practical, communal, physical, and spiritual—will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it months, years, or decades. (source: katybutler.com)
About Katy Butler
Award-winning journalist, public speaker, and bestselling author Katy has written two groundbreaking books about the end of life and is a thought leader in the national movement for medical reform. Her first book, Knocking on Heaven’s Door: the Path to a Better Way of Death, a national bestseller, was named one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2013 by the New York Times.
Her interests include Slow Medicine, aging parents, bioethics, parental caregiving, spirituality, dementia, family caregiving, Alzheimer’s Disease, end of life decisions, compassionate care, comfort care, palliative care, hospice, meditation, Zen practice, Buddhism, and how people transform themselves and their lives, especially at the boundary of the psychological and the spiritual. She has taught writing at Esalen Institute in Big Sur and at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. (source: katybutler.com)
Parking will be available in the lot at nearby Thornhill Elementary School (see below); more parking info and directions info are available on MPC’s parking and directions page.
