Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life
By:
Eugene O'Kelly
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chasing Daylight is the honest, touching, and ultimately inspirational memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelley, completed in the three-and-a-half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in September 2005. Its haunting yet extraordinarily hopeful voice reminds us to embrace the fragile, fleeting moments of our lives-the brief time we have with our family, our friends, and even ourselves. This paperback edition features a new foreword by his wife, Corinne O'Kelley and a readers' group guide and questions. “Voicing universal truths . . . shared . . . simply and clearly.”-Janet Malin, New York Times “Words to live by.”-Kerry Hannon, USA Today “One of the most unexpected and touching books you're likely to read this year.”-Edward Nawotka, Bloomberg News “An honest, thought-provoking memoir . . . O'Kelly has many lessons to teach us on how to live.”-Steve Powers, Houston Chronicle “[A] well-written and moving book.”-TheEconomist.com
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
How to have a good death - The CEO of a Fortune 500 company learns he has inoperable brain cancer and sets out to make the very best use of his remaining weeks. With the same energy and vigor he ran his company, he now learns how to let go and value the moments which remain to him.
Well written. Inspiring. Not saccharine sweet.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
A unique Life-Management-Book! - This book is an outstanding and extraordinary treasure. There are some books available about life and dying. Eugene O'Kelly's and Corinne O'Kelly's book is a unique contribution.
Some critics are focusing on the judgement of Eugene O'Kelly's way to proceed after he got his brain cancer diagnose. This is the wrong way. The right way is to judge oneself about the way to live and prepare for death. I found the book in the list of the 100 Best Business Books of all Time. A very important recommendation which everybody should follow, whether in business, whether struggling for a better life, and a better preparation for the time which comes for all of us. To Corinne O'Kelly and Eugene O'Kelly: many thanks and my deepest respect.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Preparing the way for us all.... - A friend, who has had to face her own mortality much, much too early, gave me this amazing book. I am the kind of person who likes to have a plan or two ("just in case"!) to handle potential issues in my life. Then I improvise! Like the author, I enjoy the challenge of imbuing each step of existence with consciousness and a few belly laughs .
Mr. O'Kelly's memoir, of the final three months of his life, is a roadmap of his own challenging walk through unchartered territory. His way of dealing with impending death, by personally speaking with most of the people who had made his life full, was especially inspiring. This is the kind of book we read, ponder and put onto that special shelf for when we inevitably need it again.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Makes You Wonder - I appreciate the fact that this book was written. The author showed extraordinary courage and clear thinking while under the cloud of knowing he was dying. Yet thousands of people live with this knowledge everyday and we do not hear from them. I am left wondering how a book of this nature written by someone without the resources of this author would read. Most of us can't identify with the wealth and comforts Mr. O'Kelly had at his disposal to smooth his path. This is not a criticism, just makes one wonder.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Preparing for death - This is a first person telling of the way in which one person, who happened to be a wealthy Type A personality, prepared himself and his family and friends for his own death. The additional chapters and interviews by his wife are just as interesting. There was not as much information about the physical effects of the cancer as I had expected.
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