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    Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death
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    Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death

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    About this ebook

    In Mormonism we are sometimes seemingly casual
    about death: it’s a veil or a mission call to the spirit
    world. But our actual encounters with the reality of
    death inevitably change us in ways that are difficult
    to articulate.
    In this collection, Mormon writers wrestle with
    mortality and its aftermath. A family sings a hesitant
    rendition of Happy Birthday to a grief-stricken
    mother who buried her toddler just a few hours earlier;
    an agnostic son decides he’s Mormon enough to
    arrange a funeral for his believing father.
    Some essays use death as a means to understand
    faith. One author imagines a world where Heavenly
    Mother visits her children in the form of their
    female ancestors, appearing to her descendants in
    times of grief or pain.
    Others address practicalities: how do you protect
    your children from death while still allowing them
    to experience the world; how do you get through
    one more nausea-ridden day of cancer treatment?
    Still others delve into death’s questions: does the
    overwhelming suffering that occurs in the animal
    kingdom have a function in the “plan of happiness”?
    Sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking,
    always thought-provoking, these personal essays,
    poems, and stories may never be heard at a Mormon
    funeral. But they probably should be.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSignature Books
    Release dateOct 4, 2017
    ISBN9781560853329
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