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

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

Interesting topic but he was a bit full of himself and said some shockingly outdated statements that made me do a double take like, “did he really just say that?” I don’t feel like reading this had much of an impact on easing my own anxieties around death and dying. I kept wanting him to talk about things that he never touched on (ie, what about the terror of other people’s deaths, rather than your own?) I did find it thought provoking that he believes death anxiety may be the underlying cause of a majority of neuroses. But idk 2 stars that’s all I got