Face Death: A Warriors Guide to Writing Your Death Poem

By Matthew Black

Death comes for everyone. Most of us look away until it's standing in the room.

The samurai didn't look away. On the night before battle, they wrote a jisei, a death poem that distilled a whole life into a single image. Then they rode out with nothing left to guard.

FACE DEATH brings that practice home for anyone carrying a loss or quietly dreading their own end. Drawing on samurai, Stoic, and Buddhist traditions and the hard lessons of the jujitsu mat, it shows you how to:

Write your own death poem in ten minutes, using one simple ruleRehearse your death each morning until fear loses its gripGrieve the losses no one gives you permission to mournPull grief apart from the guilt and shame tangled up in itStand watch at a deathbed, then hold your family together afterRebuild yourself when the life you knew comes to an end

No greeting-card comfort. No tidy five stages. Just time-tested tools and a field manual of drills you can start today.

Your life deserves better than a stranger's eulogy. Write the line yourself, and start living like you mean it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7D6CVT8
• ISBN13: 9798996132348
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Fws Investments
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"