What is it like to live to a ripe old age? What is it like to have
to look after oneself in later life, or to be cared for by others?
As life expectancy in the western world continues to grow, and as
people manage longer periods of old age, these questions face us on
a daily basis. With great honesty yet sensitivity, the author
describes, in poetically moving words and phrases, the experiences
of an old person at the boundary of life.Shortly after the death of
her almost 90-year-old mother, Almut Bockemuhl pauses to
contemplate the four years of intensive care that she devoted to
her. What happened during this period of sacrifice to a dying
person? Taking a thoughtful, meditative approach, she describes
invaluable experiences, concluding that old age, death and dying
have the potential to touch the highest spheres of human knowledge
and perception.'Growing old is a constant battle...One has the
experience of being squeezed out of one's bodily home, and one sets
out to protect oneself against it, and holds on to what one
can...But when we make an effort to grow old in the right way,
which means transforming what is earthly into what is spiritual, we
are working at the transubstantiation of the earth. '
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