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Dying Is the Easy Part by William J. Jefferson is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dying Is the Easy Part about?

Faced in 2002 with the prospect of dying at age fifty-five of a heart condition he never knew he had, William Jefferson was forced to reflect on the things that meant the most in his life. So, from his hospital bed, he started to write about the people, surroundings, and situations that raised him. Jefferson grew up in a small town on a farm in the rural South in the fifties and sixties, and recounts those hard times here in short story form. Sharing the powerful lessons of family, religion, racism, and generational curses and blessings that flowed from those experiences. Dying Is the Easy Part shows that while the hard parts of life can occasionally be conquered, life is more about being ready to die than ready to live. Being ready to die is all about faith. As Jefferson recovered in his hospital room, he realized that we spend our lives worrying about avoiding death, when life is the real challenge. As Shakespeare declared, "Of all the wonders in the world, it seems to me most strange, that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come." The stories within are about African American, Southern life. But they are not just for Southerners, and not

Who reads Dying Is the Easy Part?

Author

William J. Jefferson

Publisher

Tucson, AZ: Wheatmark

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781587369513

Category

religious

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14