ARGONAUT BOOKS

'It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die,' wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counselled readers to 'study death always,' and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet he never treated it in a complete work. 'How to Die' gathers in one volume Seneca's remarkable meditations on death and dying. It reveals a provocative thinker and dazzling writer who speaks with a startling frankness about the need to accept death or even, under certain conditions, to seek it out. Seneca believed that life is only a journey toward de...Read More