NINE RULES TO CONQUER DEATH

In NINE RULES TO CONQUER DEATH, Kevin Toolis reassures readers that a good death is possible and shows us how to die- and live- well. In a meditation that spans from the modern Irish wake to Aztec funeral traditions, Toolis distills the secrets of dying well into nine simple rules to transform your life - and death. NINE RULES TO CONQUER DEATH is a guidebook like no other in this time of desperate fear.

Kevin Toolis is a writer, a BAFTA-winning filmmaker, an Emmy nominee and a poet. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die, a seminal work on Irish wakes, and Rebel Hearts, a highly praised chronicle of the Troubles in Ireland. His journalism appears in the New York Times, Guardian, Observer and the Sunday Times.