Nelson Books announced today the latest title in the popular Purpose Driven... series by Rick Warren, Purpose-Driven Death.
Rick Warren has provided a blueprint for boomer life and boomer churches, and as boomers age, it seems right to provide answers for the next phase of life: the end of life. This is a five-point strategy for ensuring that your death is not ignoble or embarrassing, but that the end of your life can be as purposeful as the middle years.
In this new book, Warren explains how the end of your life can be used purposefully to demonstrate purpose to those around you: doctors, your spouse, your parents, your spouse's lawyers, your parents' lawyers, local law enforcement officers, courts, legislators, the media, and the world. Warren offers help ranging from the philosophical ("It's not about you, but about the precedent you set, whether for people diagnosed as persistent vegetative, for the papacy, or just for your children") to the practical ("Never set the beneficiary of your trust fund as anyone who might have the power to pull your plug"), all in his oft-imitated inimitable style.
As pastor of a suburban megachurch filled with white boomers, Warren has presided over many funerals and seen many church members die. It is this unique experience that Warren brings to life, combined with his gift for making simple subjects even more simple.
If you're white, middle-class, and older than 46, this book is for you.
Article comments
1 - D Beasley
I think the last line of this article is tacky. Quote "If you're white, middle-class, and older than 46, this book is for you.
2 - The Theory
I think Rick Warren is tacky.
3 - Phillip Winn
D, that line just puts this book right into the same target audience as his last two. I guess his publisher is just being a little more honest now.
Theory has it bang-on target.
4 - The Theory
yet, despite being tacky, his book has practically kept the store I work at in business.
5 - NancyGail
I wondered if anyone was going to grab this book.
6 - DrPat
Back off, Gail! I got dibs on seconds!
Besides, I'm more in the target audience than you are - except for being middle-class and white...
7 - Phillip Winn
TT, you've got to get out of that evangelical ghetto! :-)
8 - djchuang
check the date - April Fool! :)
9 - john
There is no such book. Check your facts first, readers and opinionaters.