A Second Life

"Thinking is a bold and risky game," writes Michel de Montaigne in 'Philosophizing means learning to die': In the midst of life, the author is confronted with a fatal diagnosis and the short time left to her. She looks back on her life, her great love and her family and tries to see our world in a new light in order to learn to die. In doing so, she realizes that true beauty is only visible in th...