Comments on: Book Review: Chasing Daylight

By: Jim Caralis

Jim Caralis — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:47:32 +0000

Learned about it on your blog and just finished reading it. Great book. Ironically enough I found myself asking my wife and kids to leave me alone until I finished it. Now I need to go hug them.

By: David Cohen

David Cohen — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:26:44 +0000

Thanks for the tip on the book. It sounded interesting so I picked it up on my walk home last night. I read about two-thirds of it last night, and it’s certainly hitting home – it’s very moving. Just wanted to say thanks for the review.

By: Ben Casnocha

Ben Casnocha — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:08:53 +0000

My friend Chris reviewed this on his blog a few weeks ago and I immediately added it to my Amazon list. Sounds great.

Active thinking about death and mortality is an excellent exercise to make each moment in the here and now extraordinary.

The example I always use is stolen from Heidi R.: There’s always the possibility that I walk out across a street one day and get hit by a bus. Knowing that possibility, how do I want to live my life TODAY?

By: Peter Rip

Peter Rip — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:18:39 +0000

Aaron, this is a completely vapid statement.

I had the honor of knowing Gene and the pleasure of reading his book. Gene was a compassionate and caring man. He was a role model of Humaneness that touched everyone who knew him. When I first met Gene 25+ years ago, he was already a person of profound integrity and authenticity. He was neither indulged or self-indulgent.

This comment suggests a superficiality that was not Gene, nor is his book. His book is a personal statement about dying well as part of living a complete life.

Thousands do die every day. Death is part of Life. Gene’s passing was a tragedy and an inevitability, as it will be for every one of us.

By: Aaron Woodin

Aaron Woodin — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:05:20 +0000

For every person like Kelly who has an abundance of money, friends and business associates with whom to surround himself with in that situation, there are uncounted thousands who die like that utterly destitute and alone, with no resources whatsoever to construct “perfect moments” for themselves.
Who speaks or mourns for them? Who writes or publishes a book for them?