A review by desertjarhead505
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death by Irvin D. Yalom

5.0

Warm, brilliant, and deeply empathic - I think this is Dr. Yalom's best work yet. This is a subject I've had to deal with over and over - as a career Marine, as a psychotherapist, and in the deaths of friends and of my parents. I find a lot of what Irvin Yalom wrote here resonating with my experiences and what I've come to believe and feel, and a lot of conversations with my wife, who is a clinical social worker and worked for a while in a hospice program. I would recommend this book for anyone in a helping profession and any adult; we all face the deaths of those around us and our own deaths, and our quality of life is much better if we face death directly.