The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live
By Scott Eberle
Lost Borders Press , 208 pages
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This new book from Lost Borders Press is the story of two worlds meeting, told on both a personal and an historical scale. The personal account recalls "the final crossing" of Steven Foster - one of the pioneers of modern-day wilderness rites of passage - from the perspective of the hospice physician who helped ferry him across. Interspersed with Steven and Scott's story is a more sweeping historical view of how the rites of passage movement and the hospice movement have converged.
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"This is an extraordinarily wise and compassionate book written by a physician of the body and the heart. In this beautifully written account of the death of his beloved teacher and friend we can discover the great mystery of meeting death as a teacher and friend. This book is for all of us. Its depths plumb ours, its wisdom opens ours, and the compassion of its author reminds us that this quality resides in all of us." - Joan Halifax Roshi, Abbot of Upaya Zen Center, founder of the Project on Being with Dying, and author of The Fruitful Darkness.
"This book is itself a right of passage. Extraordinary insights shared by two remarkable people, one dying, the other the inner life and decisions of the physician and friend attending this fine fellow preparing to head into death. This is the best work of its sort I have come across. There are so many levels, so many books in this book that it might well become a teaching text in many classrooms. It is the work of us all to find our center and follow it into the loving light. Now!"
Stephen Levine, author of Healing into Life and Death, and A Year to Live.
"This stirring weave of myth and medicine ushers the reader into the eternal mysteries of life and death, love and forgiveness. In The Final Crossing, hospice physician Dr. Scott Eberle gifts us with a compassionate and piercingly intimate view into the life and final days of a beloved teacher and friend, Steven Foster, who helped so many of us discover that to live well, we must learn to die well. Beautifully and provocatively written, this book is a heart-rending and life-transforming experience for the reader". Bill Plotkin, author of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche.
"Scott Eberle has given us the gift of a beautifully illustrated map of the territory where hospice and rites of passage work meet, accurate all the way to the borders from both sides. Each of these two worlds needs the other; each of them feeds the other. Anyone mortal should read this book."
Patrick L. Clary, hospice physician, medical director of The Palliative Care Service in Portsmouth, NH, author of Dying for Beginners.
"From the moment Scott Eberle picks you up in his prologue and delivers you over the Golden Gate Bridge, you and he enter into a landscape of imagination and compassion, as he artfully explores the subject of dying (and living). Eberle eloquently blends medicine, humanism, and story telling in relating the tale of three journeys: his own as a physician and fellow traveler, that of a remarkable man who seeks out his care, and all of us who will know the transformation of life by death. The Final Crossing is a deeply felt, wise book that enriches our living and engages our hearts and minds."
Robert M. Kertzner, M.D., Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco
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