Martin Prein - chimney sweep, truck driver, undertaker and today psychologist - has had enough of the same old talk on the subject of death. With an analytical eye and a great deal of experience, the thanatologist fights against the "de-legitimisation" of death, against standing sentences such as "live every day as if it were your last" and against the fact that we should not repress death.

In addition, he asks himself and us the question of how we deal with our own finiteness and what we put up in order to be able to live at all with the knowledge of being mortal without going crazy.

This is a book on the subject of death that will knock some illuminating myths off their pedestals for many without losing anything - on the contrary, we can only gain: liberating self-knowledge and genuine solidarity.