Death Is a Stranger to EveryoneOther

Selected as an Outstanding Publication Content by the Korea Publishing Industry Promotion Agency in 2018. In 2019, the publisher's logistics warehouse was destroyed by fire. 2020 Published a revised and expanded edition with book funding from readers. Published 3 editions of the 2nd edition so far.

For a long time, he has been following the footsteps of death—something other people try to avoid. His advice is simple: if you want to figure out how to live your one and only life, you should look into death. In this book, the author shares the lessons he has learned from observing countless deaths in hospitals, welfare centers, and hospices, as well as people who die alone or without family or friends. He concludes, “To die well is to live well.”

This book introduces us to people who are facing death. For every one thousand people, there are one thousand different deaths. The author shows how death—which is inevitable for all—can be less painful and less frightening. The author has created a new job called “well-dying planner” and helps people prepare for death.
He’s been faced with the fear of death since childhood, and has studied death for more than 15 years. He is willing to offer help wherever it is needed—from people who commit suicide out of depression to people who die alone, which has become a serious social issue in Korea and Japan in recent years.  

People are not prepared for death. Yet, nobody openly talks about it. The author calmly suggests that we discuss death together. This book is at once a record of the author’s work as a well-dying planner and a textbook on death. 

The commonly used expression “YOLO” implies that death is inevitable and therefore we should seek happiness today instead of building a stable tomorrow. Because we are mortal, and death awaits us, we make the best possible choices to become happy here and now. Death makes us live our lives to the fullest. 

A happy death requires a happy life. Death is a scary and disturbing topic, but there can be no life without death. If we accept death as a beautiful end to life, we will be able to appreciate the invaluable meaning of life.