What makes life worth living? What can we do to lead meaningful lives? & how do we confront our inevitable end? In his long career eminent psychotherapist & author Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients & readers to grapple with life's two greatest challenges that we all must die & that each of us is responsible for leading a life worth living In Creatures of a Day he & his patients face the difficulty of these challenges Although these people have come to Yalom seeking relief recognition or meaning he & they discover that such things are rarely found in the places where we think to look Like Love's Executioner & Yalom's other writing Creatures of a Day provides an intelligent compassionate yet still unflinching look at the human soul & all the pain confusion & hope that go with it The power of these stories is amplified by Yalom's reflections on his own life as he reckons with its inevitable end Suffused with humor great artistry & a profound humanity Creatures of a Day lays bare the necessary task we each face each day to make our own lives meaningful