Irvin D. Yalom Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. June 13, 1931
Birthday: June 13
In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
topic: Loss, Thinking, Numbers, Widowers
