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Light on Aging and Dying

By Helen Nearing

I was recently rummaging through an old bookstore when I stumbled on a copy of the book Light on Aging and Dying, by Helen Nearing, written when she was a widow. I was familiar with Helen and her husband Scott’s seminal book, The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing’s Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living, having read it years ago. Written in 1954, the book helped launch the back-to-the-land movement as part of the 1970s counterculture. Read More

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