In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

"In his latest book, Sebastian Junger returns to some of the themes that made his first one, 1997’s The Perfect Storm, a runaway bestseller. Back then, he set out to explore an unanswerable question: How did six men on a fishing boat perish in a massive storm, and what were their final moments like? This time, he directs his reporting and storytelling powers inward, toward equally unknowable things: What happens to us when we die? Why, as he lay in a Boston hospital in June 2020, minutes away from bleeding to death, did his father – dead for many years – appear above him? And why are such near-death experiences, involving friends or relatives no longer alive, so similar – across cultures and across centuries? This deeply personal book takes him, and the reader, into some surprising places."