Conscious Dying: Overcoming the Stigma of Death: A Poetic, Lyrical, and Instructional Companion for Embracing the Sacred Passage

By Marvin G. Celestial

Conscious Dying: Overcoming the Stigma of Death, was born from a longing to change how we see one of life's most certain yet most silenced experiences: death. For too long, death has been treated as something to fear, to avoid, and to push into the shadows. In modern culture, we speak of it in hushed tones, we hide it behind hospital curtains, and we leave people to face it alone. Yet across time and tradition, there has always been another way: to walk toward death with open eyes and an open heart.
This book invites a gentle revolution in how we accompany ourselves and others through the final threshold of life. It explores death as a sacred passage rather than a catastrophic ending. With a voice that is at once poetic, lyrical, and practical, the author guides the reader into a space where dying becomes a conscious act of presence, love, and surrender.
Drawing from years of personal reflection, spiritual teachings, and the wisdom of those who have stood at the bedside of the dying, Conscious Dying becomes a companion for anyone who has ever wondered: How do I prepare for this? How do I help someone I love prepare? And can death, like life, be embraced as an art?
Within these pages, the reader is offered: Reflections on fear, stigma, and the hidden beauty within endings.Practical guidance for supporting the dying and those in grief.Practices for inner preparation-ways to meet death with dignity, clarity, and peace.A vision of how conscious dying transforms the living as much as the dying.At its heart, this book is a love letter to life through the doorway of death. It reminds us that every goodbye is also a threshold to something vast, and that by learning to speak openly about death, we are also learning to live more fully.
In a world that has forgotten how to face its own impermanence, Conscious Dying offers a lantern: a tender, brave guide for anyone ready to look at death not as the end of love, but as one of its deepest expressions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FKSHDH2K
• ISBN13: 9798294984229
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"