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Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life
Title | Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life |
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Date | 2024-11-26 02:49:25 |
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Desciption
“Must the end of life be the worst part? Can it be made the best?” At 53, Eugene O'Kelly was in the full swing of life. Chairman and CEO of KPMG, one of the largest U.S. accounting firms, he enjoyed a successful career and drew happiness from his wife, children, family, and close friends. He was thinking ahead: the next business trip, the firm's continued success, weekend plans with his wife, his daughter's first day of eighth grade. Then in May 2005, Gene was diagnosed with late-stage brain cancer and given three to six months to live. Just like that. Now a growing darkness was absorbing the bright future he had seen for himself. He would have to change his plans, quickly, and capture what he could of his last diminishing days. Chasing Daylight is the account of his final journey. Starting from the time of his diagnosis and concluded upon his death less than four months later, this book is his unforgettable story. With startling intimacy, it chronicles the dissolution of Eugene O'Kelly's life and his gradual awakening to a more profound understanding. Interweaving unsettling details of his battle with cancer with his moment-to-moment reflections on life and death, love and success, spirituality and the search for meaning, it provides a testament to the power of the human spirit and a compelling message about how to live a more vivid, balanced, and meaningful life. Inspiring, passionate, deeply insightful, Chasing Daylight is a remarkable man's poignant farewell to a beloved world.
Review
My husband read this book shortly after receiving a stage-4 terminal diagnosis. It was a huge help to him in resolving his feelings and being able to be "in the moment" and I'm grateful that I could be "in the moment" with him. I have since read this book myself and corny as it sounds, it's not a book about dying, it's a book about how to go about living. No regrets here, your life is what you can make of it.