Sitting With Death

“Reading Margaret’s tender, wise book feels like sitting with your best friend! Margaret shares wisdom from twelve Buddhist teachers whose guidance helps us (and her) meet death and dying with less fear and find the gifts of comfort and joy hidden within grief and loss. With her big heart of compassion, cracked open by the deaths of her husband, father and mother, Margaret encourages us to use death as a life coach. I’m touched by her unfailing commitment to kind understanding and love in the face of our ultimate destiny.”
—Trudy Goodman, PhD, Founder, InsightLA

”In her book, Sitting with Death, Margaret Meloni invites the reader into a conversation with twelve Buddhist meditation teachers on the many faces of death. She intermingles passages from Buddhist scripture with insights from experienced contemplative practitioners, active in the field of death and dying. It was refreshing to hear not only these teachers’ wisdom offerings, but their personal stories as well. This gives her book an approachable, deeply human and intimate quality. Sitting with Death is filled with practical advice on the many challenges of facing death or working with the dying. It is also a great introduction to Buddhist teachings on impermanence and their secular application in contemporary society.”
—Judith L Lief, author of Making Friends with Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality