title: Through the Dark Forest: Transforming Your Life in the Face of Death
author:  Carolyn Conger 
description: <i></i>A priceless gift for anyone facing suffering, or seeking a trusted guide on the path toward wholeness, authenticity, and radical transformation. Harriet Lerner, Ph.D, author of <i>The Dance of Anger</i> and <i>The Dance of Connection</i><br /><br />The vast human wisdom and transformational energies found in this profoundly compassionate book reveal how the end-game of our lives can be a time of magnificent surrender and enlightenment, if we wish it to be. Richard Chamberlain, actor and <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Shattered Love</i><br /><br />A rare and deep look into the great mystery of dying, this powerful book gives the reader a path through the darkness to light. Roshi Joan Halifax, Founding Abbot, Upaya Zen Center<br /><br />Thoughtful, practical advice, and meaningful exercises to help those facing death reclaim their lives and live them to the fullest. A must read.Jacob Zighelboim, MD<br /><br />A strikingly practical and helpful book about how to live with aging and dying. Through The Dark Forest is uniquely valuable for the individual who is ready to face life and grow during the encounter with old age and mortality. Dr. Conger's book guides and empowers the adept traveler in all of us. S. Robert Moradi, M.D., Board Certified Psychiatrist and Jungian Analyst Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry UCLA School of Medicine
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  **Twilight**
  
  
  **Stephenie Meyer**
  
  
  **2005**
  
  
  **Preface**
  
  
  I'd never given much thought to how I would die — though I'd had reason enough
  in the last few months — but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like
  this. I stared without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of
  the hunter, and he looked pleasantly back at me.
  
  
  Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I
  loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.
  
  
  I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But,
  terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. When life
  offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable
  to grieve when it comes to an end. The hunter smiled in a friendly way as he
  sauntered forward to kill me. **1\. First Sight**
  
  
  My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down. It was
  seventy-five degre