Researching a book led to revelations about living a fuller life for author Anita Isalska. Across multitudes of world cultures , a few things hold universally true. We live and die, celebrate and mourn, and we only begin to understand the whole strange journey the closer we get to the end.
Here are five things I’ve learned about life and death while researching Lonely Planet’s latest book, the Guide to Death, Grief & Rebirth . 1. The deeper our awareness of death, the more passionately we live My work as a travel writer has taken me to tropical islands, epic mountains and other beautiful, life-affirming locations.
But it’s also taken me to places of profound sorrow: I’ve visited radioactive wastelands and written about histories of horror and injustice – it’s all in a day’s work..