HOW TO DIE Embracing The Aging Process

Steve Zolno

978-1-58790-713-5 / 5” x 8”’ / 136 pages / $22.00

As we move through the stages of our lives – birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age, and death – we become less joyful and more set in our ways.

This decline is not inevitable. We can learn to bring more of our original enthusiasm into everyday encounters. To do this we need to move past the thought patterns in which we are stuck and begin to see others and the world anew.

This book is for everyone who is getting older, which is all of us. It is about putting the original spark back into our lives by seeing who we really are and bringing that understanding into everything we do.

Returning to our original joy and spontaneity requires the “death” of the rigid concept of ourselves we hold in our minds. It allows us to open to new possibilities for how we see ourselves and interact with the world.

How To Die lays bare, with great insight and an expansive knowledge of literature, science, religion, social criticism, and the arts, the underpinnings of the human experience. It brilliantly contextualizes the individual within human society, and human society within the individual. Zolno’s book maps a road to living fully in the present, and dying with peace and dignity in the embrace of social interconnectedness.                                                          – Martin Jimenez, MD,

Geriatric Medicine Physician, Kaiser Oakland    

In this book Steve Zolno provides guidance for how to stay in the present moment and bring greater meaning into our everyday experience as we move through the stages of our lives.

– Emily Toch, MD, MS, Psychiatrist

The author elaborates how we can bring more peace and presence into our everyday lives. He emphasizes methods for making this a continuous process. This topic is pertinent to everyone. The book is carefully researched with numerous references.

– Jim Breivis, MD,

Retired Head of Orthopedics, Kaiser San Francisco

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steve Zolno graduated from Shimer College with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences and holds a Masters in Educational Psychology from Sonoma State University. He is a Management and Educational Consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been leading groups for over fifty years and has written eight books. He can be reached at thefutureofdemocracy.net.