The overview says the conference offers ways in which we can transform the experience of loss and grief into personal growth.
Speakers include spiritual leaders from the Buddhist, Christian, Jewish and Sufi traditions.
I'm looking forward to it.
According to Wikipedia, the name Nalanda refers to a historical place in India that is important to the history of India and Buddhism. Nalanda literally means the place that confers the lotus.
If the conference sounds like something you would be interested in but you can't make it - I recommend reading the book Dying Well
by Ira Byock, a physician from Missoula, Montana.From the Amazon.com description of the book, "Dying Well" -
"None of us gets out of here alive, but reading this book will lessen your fear of the ultimate end and give you some guidance about enjoying your life to the fullest right up until your final moment. Do people really enjoy life in the face of death? People do. The stories of individuals in Dr. Byock's book will move and inspire you to change your feelings about the end of your life, and also your feelings about your life in the present."From the Publishers Weekly description of the book "Dying Well" -
"This study of how to die well displays uncommon vitality. Byock, president elect of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Care, is a gifted storyteller. Beginning with his own father's terminal illness, he details without scientific cant the process of decline that awaits most of us. The case studies, which form the humanistic soul of this work, never devolve into the maudlin or saccharine. Life on the edge of the great crossing is explored in all its sadness and pathos, but Byock also makes room for wisdom, hope and even the joy of final understanding. By recounting the passages of patients in his Missoula, Mont., practice, Byock makes a forceful case for hospice care and against physician-assisted suicide."
