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The Enneagram of Death - Helpful Insights by 9 Types of People on Grief, Fear, and Dying By Elizabeth Wagele International Enneagram Association Publications (2012)
Reviewed by Kathryn Grant
Elizabeth Wagele, well-known in the Enneagram community for her witty and accurate introductory book, The Enneagram Made Easy, and additional volumes: Finding the Birthday Cake, written for children and the child-like within each of us; The Career Within in collaboration with Ingrid Stabb; and others, presents an ambitious, profound, and compassionate look at death and dying.
Through interviews and story submission, Elizabeth has compiled an interesting array of death-related stories. Liz, as she is best known, presents these to the reader within Enneagram reference. We hear the voices and encounter the writing style of each type as they share a story of their own close encounter with death, watching or waiting with someone who is dying, or recounting a story of someone's death, often early in their own life, that has impacted them. We get a clear taste of the struggles inherent in each type's life and death journey.
One chapter is devoted to each of the nine Enneagram types. The stories are bundled and so impact the reader with a sense of how each type deals with the death of a loved one, the process and anticipation of death, and how...