Publisher's Synopsis
What if embracing death is the key to truly living?
We spend our lives avoiding the thought of death-yet its presence shapes everything we do. In Dying to Live, Andy Chaleff takes readers on an intimate and eye-opening journey, revealing how making peace with mortality can unlock a richer, more meaningful life.
Blending memoir, philosophy, and deeply personal reflections, Chaleff invites us to step beyond society's distractions and face death with curiosity rather than fear. Through poignant stories and thought-provoking questions, he helps us see that dying isn't the end of life's meaning-it's where we finally begin to understand it.
Endorsements:
This extraordinary book will help you relax into and enjoy the continuum of existence.
- Deepak Chopra, New York Times bestselling author and pioneer in personal transformation
This book is extraordinary, it's a treat, and it affects me deeply. Reading it, I feel I am going on a journey with a wise, caring, and perceptive friend whose honest opening of his own struggles with the deepest questions of life and death have not failed to stir the same reflections in me about my own. I warmly recommend you all go on this journey with Andy and within yourself soon, as carefully and enjoyably as I have. Wonderful, gracious, gently helps you to free yourself, bit by bit!
- Robert Thurman, author of Inner Revolution and Man of Peace
Dying to Live is a book every living being should read to find freedom from the fear of death. With a message both simple and profound, Andy Chaleff offers a path toward liberation from the anxiety we all inevitably face. After reading it, I feel more at ease with death than I ever did before."
- Satish Kumar, founder of Schumacher College and lifelong peace pilgrim
Reading Dying to Live felt like sitting with a close friend who isn't afraid to talk about the things we usually avoid. Andy Chaleff doesn't just write about death-he invites us into an intimate conversation with it, and somehow, with ourselves. Brave, beautifully written, and profoundly illuminating.
- Austin Hearst, media executive and philanthropist
Our modern world treats death like a glitch in the system. But Andy Chaleff reminds us that death is the great clarifier-the one truth that can reorder our priorities and reconnect us to what matters. This book is an invitation to stop performing life and start inhabiting it.
- Chip Conley, founder of the Modern Elder Academy (MEA) and author of Learning to Love Midlife
