How to Die

1st: (15mins)

psychotherapist: (knee problems)

Becoming Myself

love and death and fear

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2nd:

Outlines:

Part 1

His own motality:

fans & best-sellers: enjoy great popularity

His daily life during the hopspital

Dealing with patients:

“If we live a life full of regret, full of things we haven’t done, if we’ve lived an unfulfilled life,” he says, “when death comes along, it’s a lot worse. I think it’s true for all of us.”

Part 2

“For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning.”——    Charles Dickens

some of his experiences

and his books Becoming Myself

Part 3 :

another book Love’s Executioner,

For all its morbidity, existential psychotherapy is deeply life-affirming.

“I wanted to rehumanize therapy, to show the therapist as a real person,”

he says his anxiety about death is soothed somewhat by the belief that what follows life will be the same as what preceded it

Mondays with Yalom are notTuesdays With Morrie.

Imagine that the present moment is a spotlight moving its way across a ruler that shows the billions of years the universe has been around. Everything to the left of the area lit by the spotlight is over; to the right is the uncertain future. The chances of us being in the spotlight at this particular moment—of being alive—are minuscule. And yet here we are.

emphasizes that love can reduce death anxiety, both by providing a space for people to share their fears and by contributing to a well-lived life.