ViktorFrankl survived the holocaust to write #MansSearchforMeaning. I don't say this lightly; Frankl cites one of the reasons he claimed not to succumb to suicide was bringing the insights he gleaned from the holocaust ,and its psychological effects, to the world outside of the Third Reich. He asks us to dispense with Freud's pleasure principle and Adam Smith's invisible hand and see the search for meaning in one's life as the motivating force of all people.

Facing the rise of authoritarianism, the endless, preventable plague, and the future throes of climate change, Frankl's insights are worth your time.

Man's Search for Meaning was one of my uncle's favorite books. I know he took inspiration from these words in his final hours:

"I once read a letter written by a young invalid, in which he told a friend that he had just found out he would not live for long, that even an operation would be of no help. He wrote further that he remembered a film he had seen in which a man was portrayed who waited for death in a courageous and dignified way. The boy had thought it a great accomplishment to meet death so well. Now—he wrote—fate was offering him a similar chance."

May we all meet death with courage and dignity.

Source: antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mans-search-for-meaning.pdf