O smrti a životě – Yalom Irvin D. (2022)

World-renowned psychiatrist and author Irvin D. Yalom has dedicated his career to working with people facing anxiety and grief. However, he began to confront anxiety and grief himself when his beloved wife, Marylin, was diagnosed with cancer. In this book, their paths intersect. Marylin passed away peacefully, and Irvin learns to live without her. In the first months after the diagnosis, they wrote together about what it is like to face one's own mortality and cope with losing someone we love. Their shared life was truly blessed, surrounded by a loving family and the beautiful nature of Palo Alto, filled with mutual love, but like us, they had to face the inevitable in the form of death. They wrote together about intimacy, love, and grief. When Marylin left, Irvin and their children celebrated her life together, and in the final part of the book, Irvin writes very candidly about the things that came with his fresh widowhood. About the longing for intimacy that vanished with Marylin's departure, about what it is like to be alone after so many years together, and about gratitude for what he experienced with his beloved wife. About the fact that the meaning of life is not in our achievements, in fulfilling sometimes unrealistic expectations, but in the deep relationships we cultivate together.