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Here, he tells us how to practice for death, how to die well, and how to understand the role of a good death in a good life.

Seneca believed that life is only a journey toward death and that one must rehearse for death throughout life. Edited and translated by James Romm, How to Die reveals a provocative thinker and dazzling writer who speaks with a startling frankness about the need to accept death or even, under certain conditions, to seek it out. How to Die gathers in one volume, for the first time, Seneca’s remarkable meditations on death and dying. He counseled readers to “study death always,” and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet he never treated it in a complete work. “It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die,” wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c.