• The End of Heaven

  • Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age
  • By: Sidney Dekker
  • Narrated by: Sidney Dekker
  • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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The End of Heaven

By: Sidney Dekker
Narrated by: Sidney Dekker
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In this deeply personal audiobook, Sidney Dekker narrates his own experiences with disaster and suffering, and in the process, he examines a largely unexplored dilemma.

Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually makes it harder to explain why we suffer. Accidents and disasters have become technical problems without inherent purpose. When told of a disaster, we easily feel lost in the steely emptiness of technical languages of engineering or medicine. Or in our drive to pinpoint the source of suffering, we succumb to the hunt for a scapegoat, possibly inflicting even greater suffering on others around us.

How can we satisfactorily deal with suffering when the disaster that caused it is no more than the dispassionate sum of utterly mundane, imperfect human decisions and technical failures? Broad in its historical sweep and ambition, The End of Heaven is as rich as it is moving.

©2017 Sidney Dekker (P)2017 Sidney Dekker

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A meditation on author’s own loss

The book is a deeply personal, emotionally indulgent study on the author’s own grief stemming from the loss of a child. Clearly a therapeutic exercise for the author, it just wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. The mistakes in the reading performance were distracting.

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  • 07-27-22

I hope it was therapeutic, because it wasn't great

I accidentally selected this instead of the Safety Anarchist (which I ended up getting as well :- ), but decided to keep it anyway thinking it was building off of his research in the medical safety arena.

While I can only imagine how hard and transformative the experience he went through was and appreciate how it must color his whole life, I was not really looking for an attack of religion, and would not have selected this book if I had known.

That said, while I look forward to getting back to his Safety Differently works, I do hope that putting this together helped him find some healing and peace.

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