@babyblues262 I’m 72 years old and like you I am a cancer survivor. My most profound experience with death was losing my mother when she was 75-years-old and I was in my 40’s. I understand death and dying from an intellectual and rational point of view. But emotionally? That’s far more difficult for me. I understand my own anxieties about death more by reading Irvin Yalom’s website.

Have you read any books by Irvin Yalom, MD? He is a psychiatrist now in his 90’s and is a most prolific writer of fiction, narratives about his therapy experiences with his patients, and his work on group therapy is *the* handbook in psychology and psychiatry.

Dr. Yalom’s theories of approaching his patients is based on existential psychology. He writes about the four big existential concerns: death, meaningless, isolation, and freedom. These all can cause anxiety in lives and he has been writing frequently about death as he nears his own. Dr. Yalom’s work is very accessible and highly readable to everyone.

Irvin Yalom’s website lists his books:

— https://www.yalom.com/books

Do you think you might like to read some of Dr. Yalom’s work?