What makes life worth living? What can we do to lead meaningful lives? And how d
o we confront our inevitable end? In his long career, eminent psychotherapist an
d author Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life's
two greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of us is responsib
le for leading a life worth living. In Creatures of a Day, he and his patients f
ace the difficulty of these challenges. Although these people have come to Yalom
seeking relief, recognition, or meaning, he and they discover that such things
are rarely found in the places where we think to look.
