Speaker 1: Hello and welcome. This is the WBZ Book Club and
Speaker 1: I'm Jordan Rich. He's the best selling author Sebastian Younger.
Speaker 1: Most of us know him for his huge hit The
Speaker 1: Perfect Storm. His latest is a powerful memoir called In
Speaker 1: My Time of Dying, How I came face to face
Speaker 1: with death and the idea of an afterlife. Back in
Speaker 1: the summer of twenty twenty, Sebastian Younger found himself in pain,
Speaker 1: crippling pain in his midsection, and Younger was rushed to
Speaker 1: the local Cape Cod hospital, where his life began to
Speaker 1: slip away. Massive internal bleeding caused his body to shut down.
Speaker 1: As the light in his hospital room dimmed, Younger says
Speaker 1: his dead father came to him in a vision, inviting
Speaker 1: his son to join him, saying there's nothing to be
Speaker 1: scared of. I'll take care of you well. This near
Speaker 1: death experience certainly affected Sebastian Younger, a confirmed atheist, so
Speaker 1: he did what he's done in so many previous books,
Speaker 1: researching his condition and physical deterioration and depth, how the
Speaker 1: doctor saved him and the big question what happens to
Speaker 1: us when we die? Powerful and well written In My
Speaker 1: Time of Dying, the very latest from Sebastian Younger, The
Speaker 1: Book Club WBZ, Boston's news radio