Living Posthumously: Confronting the Loss of Vital Powers

By Andrew Bard Schmookler

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805038574
• ISBN13: 9780805038576
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Insight on living with chronic pain, "loss of vital powers"

Schmookler gives the reader a new perspective on understanding the ever changing life of people living with chronic pain/illness. This book was a wonderful motivator for myself. It reminds you that you are not the only one out there struggling to hold on to anything you can as your "vital powers" are gradually stolen away unexpectedly (or expectedly). Schmookler gives the reader knowledge, support, and strength to fight back against their own theif or the theif of a loved one.

Confronting Chronic Fatigue

Living Posthumously will help everyone with a chronic neurological disease or fatigue. Multiple sclerosis and stroke readers have much to gain. Schookler communicates his adjustment to chronic weakness with such clarity, humor and clear-eyed verity. He faces the loss squarely and effectively.Living Posthumously collects the best of comments from notable sources who are "confronting the loss of vital powers". Many of the quotes are delightful. The French philosopher Montaigne complains that his mind "has picked up such a close friendship with my body that, when the body calls, it deserts me at every turn". Exactly so.Through his eyes and words, I see my weakness and resignation to it. He stunned my passive acceptance. I am changing my future as a result of spending these few hours with Dr. Schmookler