For years as and award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many frontlines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020, while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. This experience spurred Junger - a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical - to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die.

ISBN: 9781668054727