Inner Fire: Your Will to Live : Stories of Courage, Hope, and Determination

The will to live is in both your heart and your mind. What is the will to live? How do some people faced with major life threatening illnesses not only survive, but experience a profound deepening of their lives a a result? Oncologist Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD and Isadora R. Rosenbaum of CancerSupportiveCare.com asked patients and colleagues about their own will to live and brought their stories together. This book is replete with the joy of life, of people who face trying circumstances yet go about living their lives. It is inspiring reading for the temporarily healthy as well as the ill. If the contributors of this book were to give one piece of advice to those who have encountered adversity in their lives, it would be: It's up to you. You can learn to live with it, live around it, or live in spite of it. You don't know what you can do until you try.
Introduction by David Spiegel, MD