Ars Moriendi

After the Black Death emptied whole towns, a new kind of book appeared — the Ars Moriendi, guidance for dying well, illustrated with woodcuts of the deathbed as a final battlefield. Practical instruction, not despair: how to meet the end without losing yourself in it. 

Practice for the one thing everyone eventually does.

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