Stephen Levine, a meditation teacher and author best known for his work on death and dying, died December 17, Tricycle magazine reported. He was 78. Levine's many books include A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as if It Were Your Last; A Gradual Awakening; Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying; Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening; and, with his wife, Ondrea, The Healing I Took Birth For: Practicing the Art of Compassion.
