14 life lessons (authenticity, love, relationship to the other, mourning, power, guilt, time, fear, anger, game, patience letting go, forgiveness, happiness) are exposed not from obscure theoretical speculations and metaphysical but using concrete examples from the accompaniment of the dying.
Surprising as it may seem, the dying are sometimes paradoxically filled with the feeling of life. As they face the inevitable, they then find the courage to ask the real questions, those affecting the meaning of their existence, of their lives, that of their relatives. From a situation that seems hopeless and yet so sad sometimes gushes light lessons, humanity and insight that we should all practice.
The strength of this book is to relate these experiences simply, directly, without wishing to eyeful or just give lessons! Rather, it is the authors themselves who have received lessons from those who are about to leave this world and through their book, it's our turn to hear them.
With the strength of authentic experiences of dying people, their words and their stories resonate Note truth that we carry deep inside ourselves. A beautiful illustration of what had already said of philosophers: "philosophize is learning to die" and is "not a meditation on death but a meditation of life".
Whatever your situation, reading can you bring hope, not vain and artificial, but based on deep humility with which we are invited to meditate on the meaning of our own lives. If one were to summarize in a few words all the work, we could say that we must live fully, that is to say, have the courage to give and receive love.
