Getting ‘It’
Former publisher/editor and founding member of Mother Jones, Dowie’s award-winning career as an investigative journalist covered much ground, including death. But nothing moved him like his conversations with poet Judith Tannenbaum as she prepared to die.
What inspired you to write about death and dying?
Judith Tannenbaum, who I spent the last six months of her life with.
What does death literacy mean to you?
Getting it.
What is your Most Treasured Possession?
Life. You know why
What Do You Hope For?
Long life and good health for my children and grandchildren.
What do you believe is life’s most essential lesson?
Mortality.
What are you reading, what’s on your bedside table?
Histories of math.
What book would you like to be buried with?
One an Orca would read.
What is your exit plan? How would you like to die?
Floating in glacial melt.
If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what would it be?
An Orca.
If heaven exists, what would you like to hear when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
“Hi.”
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