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'''Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying''' is a book by Ondrea and Stephen Levine, first published in 1982. It has been described a "central resource" of the "conscious dying movement", and a "one of the key New Age texts on dying".

Background
"Both the efflorescence of the 196os counterculture and the sense of political discouragement at its collapse were among the conditions for development of the conscious dying movement in England and America after 1980. Closer influences have been the widening Tibetan diaspora, the high-visibility AIDS emergency, and the already ongoing movement for hospice and palliative care. One effect of the sudden appearance of AIDS among young, educated, articulate men (among the many whom it affects)- especially because the disease is both gradual and so far incurable-has able-has been the carving out of a cultural space in the West in which to articulate the subjectivity of the dying. This space, until the i 98os rather imperiously foreclosed by the melodramas of modern medical delivery, has now also become increasingly available to some others facing the likelihood lihood of "premature" death, and indeed to some of the aged. Interestingly, ingly, though it has none of the communitarian ambition of some `6os politics, the conscious dying movement has a far greater involvement with the Buddhist pedagogy of nonself."

. Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism (Buddhism and Modernity) (Kindle Locations 2722-2726). Kindle Edition.

. Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism (Buddhism and Modernity) (Kindle Locations 2721-2722). Kindle Edition.

conscious dying movement

On the history of the conscious dying movement - https://www.livingdying.org/conscious-dying/

Reception and influence
"bible of the conscious dying movement" - http://www.brown.uk.com/palliative/goldberg.pdf