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After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty...

While on her way to a yoga retreat in the Caribbean, Rachel Brathen collapsed in the airport and was rushed to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. When she opened her eyes following the surgery, her boyfriend was at her bedside weeping, and she immediately knew something terrible had happened. She soon discovered that at the same time as her collapse, her best friend was killed in a car crash. Over the next two years, which should have been the happiest time of her life with her engagement and growing career, Rachel experienced trial after trial. 

Todos quisiéramos tener la certeza de que existe la eternidad, de que nuestro destino no se para en seco cuando la parca viene a recogernos. Como recurso ante el olvido de la cultura occidental de la tan temida muerte, tenemos las enseñanzas del Bardo Thödol o Libro tibetano de los muertos venidas del viejo Tíbet, donde se nos muestra lo que es la luz clara que el difunto experimenta después de pasar por el «bardo» o doloroso tránsito de la muerte.