It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4
BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to study death always and took his own advice returning to
the subject again and again in all his writings yet he never treated it in a complete work.
How to Die gathers in one volume for the first time Seneca's remarkable meditations on death
and dying. Edited and translated by James S. Romm How to Die reveals a provocative thinker and
dazzling writer who speaks with a startling frankness about the need to accept death or even
under certain conditions to seek it out. Featuring beautifully rendered new translations How
to Die also includes an enlightening introduction notes the original Latin texts and an
epilogue presenting Tacitus's description of Seneca's grim suicide.
