In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Death. Some are frightened by the horror of the unknown, others are attracted by the mystery of the unexplored. It is this morally complex topic that Sebastian Junger, already known to Ukrainian readers for the books “Tribe” and “Freedom”, decided to explore. In his new work, he shares his personal experience of being on the verge of life and death, describing his experiences and inner discoveries.

The author is looking for the reasons why at that critical moment his long-dead father, a scientist who always found rational explanations for any event, appeared before him. Following his father, Junger is trying to scientifically substantiate what happened to him in intensive care. Before you is not a complex scientific treatise, but a living story, where interesting scientific facts are intertwined with philosophical reflections, descriptions of the author’s incredible adventures in different corners of the world — and all this through the frantic tension of a decisive moment in a person’s life.