Living Life Backward

Preface

"I am convinced that only a proper perspective on death provides the true perspective on life. Living in the light of your death will help you to live wisely and freely and generously. It will give you a big heart and open hands, and enable you to relish all the small things of life in deeply profound ways... Ecclesiastes teaches us to live life backward... [It] invites us to let the end sculpt our priorities and goals, our greatest ambitions and our strongest desires" (p.11-12).