Staring at the Sun : Overcoming the Terror of Death

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This book is beautifully written and flows like a conversation. It addresses the difficult (for many) topic of facing our own mortality and how to turn the knowledge of our mortality into a force for living better. While Yalom directly addresses fellow therapists in one part of the book, it is st...

from lieslmayerson

This book is beautifully written and flows like a conversation. It addresses the difficult (for many) topic of facing our own mortality and how to turn the knowledge of our mortality into a force for living better. While Yalom directly addresses fellow therapists in one part of the book, it is st...

from lieslmayerson

This book is beautifully written and flows like a conversation. It addresses the difficult (for many) topic of facing our own mortality and how to turn the knowledge of our mortality into a force for living better. While Yalom directly addresses fellow therapists in one part of the book, it is st...

from arubabookwoman

Irvin D. Yalom is a psychiatrist who has written several books. Here he studies the question of mortality--why we are afraid of death, and why we should not be. He uses his personal experiences, the experiences of his patients, literature and philosophy to posit several solutions for us to allevi...

from VegAnne

Some books need to be read at the right time and this was the right time for me to read this book. Yalom claims that many problems are because of death anxiety - as a defence or a distraction from facing death. It sounds like it is a solemn book but it isn't. It is as much about how we live our l...