Kristen Corrects

Death Is a Habit Kristen Corrects

Growing up, Sieglinde always had a profound and unexplainable perspective on life. It wouldn't be until much later that she realized how unique this gift was. But for Sieglinde, life started once she began to travel the world. In Africa, she met a witch doctor. In Jamaica, she learned the ways of living without the constraints of time-when mother nature herself commanded the day's schedule. Everything about these places was different from the world she knew-and it prepared her for a major change. Death had always been a constant in her life-from her own near death in childhood, witnessing the aftermath of a drowning, the tragic death of her granddaughter, and more. Through it all, Sieglinde learned death wasn't the bleak and terrifying concept that Western customs made it out to be. The body is never more alive than when it is dead. It may be dead as an organism, but it's alive as an energetic soul. In Sieglinde Martens' powerful debut memoir, readers will realize that death is not the end but rather the beginning, and over the course of our many lives, death is a hard habit to break.