Why Existential Coaching Could Help People at the End-of-Life

By Erick Messias, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.

With his place among history’s greatest writers cemented by War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy published a gem of a novella in 1886 titled The Death of Ivan Ilych. In the few pages of the novella, we follow the last days in the life of this member of the Court of Justice whose life had been “most simple, most…