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Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death Paperback – 29 April 2009
Irvin D. Yalom
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- Publisher : John Wiley & Sons Inc; 1st edition (29 April 2009)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0470401818
- ISBN-13 : 978-0470401811
- Dimensions : 13.72 x 2.54 x 20.83 cm
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From the Inside Flap
IRVIN YALOMWHOSE BOOKS HAVE SOLD MORE THAN FIVE MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE
"Always enlightening and often quite moving."Washington Post
"One of America's finest therapists guides us through one of life's most challenging tasks in this profoundly helpful book. It will benefit anyone who reads it."Rabbi Harold Kushner, author, When Bad Things Happen to Good People
"Staring at the Sun looks experientially and psychodynamically at our deepest fear and describes with uncommon eloquence and deep humanity how we may arrive at a form of peace. The book is witty and kind and unflinching, a generous meditation that shows us not how to defeat our fear but how to become wise enough to tolerate it. It should give comfort to the dying and to those they leave behind."Andrew Solomon, author, The Noonday Demon, winner of the National Book Award
"Although written from a psychotherapeutic perspective, this thoughtful treatment of the ultimate fear has much to offer people of faith. This is a wise book by a wise man about the most taboo of all subjects. Read it, and fear not."Dr. Robin Meyers, minister of Mayflower UCC Church of Oklahoma City, professor of rhetoric in the philosophy department at Oklahoma City University, and author, Why the Christian Right Is Wrong
"Irvin Yalom has written a brave, intelligent book on the last forbidden subjectdeath. I honor his courage and rare insight."Erica Jong, author, Fear of Flying, Shylock's Daughter, Inventing Memory, and Sappho's Leap
"Yalom is the Scheherazade of the couch."Laura Miller, New York Times
From the Back Cover
IRVIN YALOM--WHOSE BOOKS HAVE SOLD MORE THAN FIVE MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE
"Always enlightening and often quite moving."--Washington Post
"One of America's finest therapists guides us through one of life's most challenging tasks in this profoundly helpful book. It will benefit anyone who reads it."--Rabbi Harold Kushner, author, When Bad Things Happen to Good People
"Staring at the Sun looks experientially and psychodynamically at our deepest fear and describes with uncommon eloquence and deep humanity how we may arrive at a form of peace. The book is witty and kind and unflinching, a generous meditation that shows us not how to defeat our fear but how to become wise enough to tolerate it. It should give comfort to the dying and to those they leave behind."--Andrew Solomon, author, The Noonday Demon, winner of the National Book Award
"Although written from a psychotherapeutic perspective, this thoughtful treatment of the ultimate fear has much to offer people of faith. This is a wise book by a wise man about the most taboo of all subjects. Read it, and fear not."--Dr. Robin Meyers, minister of Mayflower UCC Church of Oklahoma City, professor of rhetoric in the philosophy department at Oklahoma City University, and author, Why the Christian Right Is Wrong
"Irvin Yalom has written a brave, intelligent book on the last forbidden subject--death. I honor his courage and rare insight."--Erica Jong, author, Fear of Flying, Shylock's Daughter, Inventing Memory, and Sappho's Leap
"Yalom is the Scheherazade of the couch."--Laura Miller, New York Times
About the Author
Irvin D. Yalom is a highly regarded psychiatrist and the author of numerous books including the New York Times best-selling Love's Executioner and the international best-selling novel When Nietzsche Wept.
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Overall, I am glad I read most of the book, it does make you think and helped me think differently about life, and death. The message is simple - live for today, plan to live a long happy life, understand what the people you knew (who have died) did for you and the affect they had on you. Don't fear your mortality. If you do, read this book.

His own belief is that your consciousness simply "switches off" when you die.
His book is interesting up to the point when someone dies and it surprised me just how many people actually fear dying!
He makes a good living from it anyway!!
It is an interesting read to see exactly what fears people have about death and how it affects their lives the older they get. In the end, he tries to calm his patients fears so that they get some peace in their final days.
He doesn't take into account research in other fields such as that undertaken at the Munro Institute in Virginia or the work of Dr. Ron Moody, both of whom have researched where we go after dying.
Anyway, an interesting read if you are more biased to the atheist view of this is all there is!

The book is a series of case studies of clients' death fears and anxieties and Yalom is his wonderful honest self, talking also about his issues with the subject. It's a good read, a quick read and for me, fairly satisfying but a little limiting as one case follows another.
For me the limitation of the book is his atheism and rationality concerning death


Maybe the book didn't do anything for me because I do not have death anxiety to any significant degree, or maybe I do and am so deep in denial that I cant see it. Whichever it is, the book did nothing for me and I abandoned it 2/3 of the way through. Possible case of having a hammer and every problem looking like a nail.