This book is a book about the importance of living your life now, about "remembering to live" by keeping your priorities clearly before you and using your time, energy, and material resources accordingly. None of us can escape the sober reminders of our finitude: aging, illness, the losses of life, and our own deaths and those of our loved ones. The question is, how do we deal with those reminders? With fear and trepidation? Or with a desire to learn...