For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. Yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at home with his wife and children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father. That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day. In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.