Early Modern · 1651
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying
Jeremy Taylor · 1613–1667
What it is
How to prepare for death across a whole life rather than at the end of one, written after the deaths of his patron's wife and his own sons.
Why it lasted
The finest English prose on mortality, and a Protestant successor to the medieval art of dying.
Where to read it
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