Gayatri Devi

Gayatri Devi is a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine.

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The Art of Dying

By Gayatri Devi

Seeing the buzzing around Jane lying prostate in bed, I felt myself on the set of the Ars Moriendi, the small medieval manual featuring eleven woodcuts on how to die the Good Death. The scenes are more crowded than the main floor of Barney's at Christmas season, teeming with saints, devils and people. More