"A funeral director's heartfelt, poignant, and vivid insights into what makes life worth living. In his nonfiction debut, Meyer draws on his 14 years as the owner of a funeral home in order to distill lessons about life he's learned from people dealing with death. Meyer's approachable writing style guarantees that readers will be both moved and entertained."
- Kirkus Reviews
If you could fast forward your life to your deathbed and hear your regrets (and joys), then rewind and live your life with that knowledge, would you do it? This book provides that knowledge. After fourteen years in the funeral business, Chris Meyer has sat with families and listened to their "could'ves," "should'ves," and "would'ves." In doing so he learned many lessons—lessons that kept repeating themselves year after year. Meyer knew he could help a lot of people with this information. So he sat down and memorialized the lessons he learned to share with the world: some simple, some profound, some irreverent. Lessons from life, from death, from surviving. But make no mistake, this is NOT a story about dying...this is a story of living. This is...Life in 20 Lessons. Poignant. Funny. Filled with love.