how to die
âIt takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die,â wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BCâ65 AD). He counseled readers to âstudy death always,â and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet he never treated it in a complete work. How to Die gathers in one volume, for the first time, Senecaâs remarkable meditations on death and dying. Edited and translated by James S. Romm, How to Die reveals a provocative thinker and dazzling writer who speaks with a startling frankness about the need to accept death or even, under certain conditions, to seek it out.