Making Friends with Death
A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality
This book guides us in exploring our relationship to our own mortality and also working with the dying. Judith Lief offers practical exercises for deepening awareness and appreciation of change; practices for cultivating kindness; as well as contemplation slogans and caregiver guidelines, drawn from the Buddhist tradition, to help us discover ways of living more openheartedly and with less fear.

Making Friends with Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality, Judith Lief, Shambhala Publications, 187 pages, $19.95

Judith L. Lief is a Buddhist teacher, writer, and editor. She was a close student of Ch�gyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who empowered her as a teacher, and she has edited many of his books including The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma volumes and Milarepa. She has been a teacher and practitioner for over 35 years and continues to teach and lead retreats throughout the world. Lief is also active in the field of death and dying and is the author of Making Friends with Death.