Abstract
Guy Gilbert offers in his book short study, discussing suffering of nowadays human. He bases on his years of practise in work with people standing on the edge of society - delinquent youths, houmelesses, prisoners - so he is competent to speak about all kinds of human suffering.
He brings themes of death, dying, illness, poverty, depression, loneliness, age, love, mental illness together with finality of life. He shows, that attitude towards suffering always includes attitude towards life.
The book is written in a form of short stories - personal confessions.