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At other times Betty expressed anger at my forcing her to think about morbid topics. Why think about death? We can’t do anything about it! I tried to help her understand that, though the fact of death destroys us, the idea of death can save us. In other words, our awareness of death can throw a different perspective on life and incite us to rearrange our priorities.

Irvin D. Yalom

At other times Betty expressed anger at my forcing her to think about morbid topics. Why think about death? We can’t do anything about it! I tried to help her understand that, though the fact of death destroys us, the idea of death can save us. In other words, our awareness of death can throw a different perspective on life and incite us to rearrange our priorities.

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About Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin David Yalom (; born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.