Near the Exit: Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper Audiobook (Free)

After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother transferred right into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head-on, with the attention of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Leave examines how civilizations confront and have confronted death by investigating Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, Mayan temples, Colorado cremation pyres, Day time of the Deceased festivities, Maori settlements, and tourist-destination graveyards. Erickson shows on mortality and exactly how life is manufactured more valuable by recognizing it. Through her personal journey and her travels, Erickson maintains that probably one of the most life-affirming items we can do is to request loss of life along for the trip.