The Promised Landing: A Gateway to Peaceful Dying provides a new context for understanding our dying experiences as shaped by western culture. Learn to identify and distinguish between the various dying situations that frame our journey toward, or away from, the peaceful demise we want for ourselves and our loved ones. Participate in a personal (or group) guided recitation, traveling to every way station and destination throughout our dying territory—engaging your heart and soul, where resolve for fulfilling our promises takes root. Then, examine a related set of everyday personal and systemic obstacles to peaceful dying in order to better forecast their impact and adjust glide paths while time yet remains to die in peace, and at peace.

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Bart Windrum is one of the most brilliant and original thinkers I know in the citizen movement to improve our experience of death and dying. If you want to avoid pitfalls and improve your odds of a peaceful death—on your own terms, not medicine's—read this book. — Katy Butler, author of Knocking on Heaven's Door and The Lost Art of Dying

Bart Windrum's end-of-life lexicon draws out a wide range of ethical, medical, cultural, practical, and family issues. His introduction of language shifts is an important contribution to this complicated dialog and a gift to all of us. — Dennis McCullough, MD, author of My Mother Your Mother: Embracing Slow Medicine

Contemplative aging requires that we learn to identify, recognize, and overcome practical obstacles to peaceful dying that our world, too readily and frequently, sets before us. Bart Windrum deeply illuminates these matters. — Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, former Naropa University Wisdom Chair and author of From Aging to Sage-ing

The Promised Landing lays out a map of our dying territory as a matrix, charts its intersecting paths, and discusses obstructions in the way of a peaceful death. Bart Windrum is a warm writer and has written a smart book which will be useful to all of us who see little of death and dying, until we see too much. — Victoria Sweet, MD, author of Slow Medicine and Gods' Hotel

Windrum's Matrix of Dying Terms significantly enhances end-of-life discourse. If widely adopted, the Matrix would advance our ability to talk about these realities, offering insight to policy makers, clinical providers, and citizens in our collective management of dying in America. — Jennifer Ballentine

Thank you for an incredibly rich trove of advice. Your work is a light in the darkness. — Susannah Fox, US authority on technology and health care