What Happens When I Die?: A Promise of the Afterlife

Patricia Morley is professor emerita of English and Canadian Studies at
Concordia University and an avid outdoor recreationist. She is the
author of several books, including The Mountain Is Moving: Japanese
Women’s Lives, Kurlek and Margaret Laurence: T

“What happens when I die?” The question concerns us all in varying
degrees, and increasingly as we age. Our own aging and the death of one
we love or even know personally brings the matter to the foreground.
Dying affects living, and so is relevant to us all.

Brian Stiller is president of Tyndale College and Seminary in Toronto.
He travels widely to speak to educators and church officials, and has
written and published six earlier books on the topic. Stiller’s clear,
lively prose is enriched by anecdotes and examples. The table of
contents is composed of intriguing questions such as why we do tend to
fear and deny death, and are there benefits to examining it.

Our tendency to neglect the matter stems from the pressure of living in
the here and now. Most of us shut off thoughts of an afterlife.
Stiller’s style makes the topic readily accessible. The prose is
reader-friendly, full of relevant anecdotes. He raises questions and
answers them. The narrative is enriched by relevant quotes from the
Bible and such well-known writers as Philip Yancey, C.S. Lewis, and Tom
Harpur.

What Happens When I Die? is well researched and well written. The topic
concerns us all, and this book is highly recommended.