Rick B. (bup) - , reviewed on 3/13/2014 + 165 more book reviews

I admire this man. So easy to call oneself Christian and wallpaper over the darkness and pain of death and loss, but here he asks the brutal questions that losing a spouse conjures. Where is she if not nowhere? Why does one suppose heaven is like here, or the eternal soul like the living? If there's an afterlife, and it's like earth, why would there be death? What's the point? Can't we reason that, if death exists, there must be a huge change and we are probably separated forever? What makes anybody sure, if God exists, the He is good? Why not posit a cosmic sadist?

He doesn't shy away, either. Nor does he let the Buddhists off lightly - "death exists, and anything that exists matters."

Yep. If you're not sure you want to really face death head on, skip this book.

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