An author is best-selling. It was nickel and Dimed. Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer.

An entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe is offered by this razor-sharp polemic. There are natural causes. It describes how we worry too much about what will happen. One by one, Ehrenreich dismantles the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life. But. There are natural causes. The term is used to describe the fundamental unreliability of our bodies and minds. Ehrenreich looks into the cellular basis of aging and shows how little control we have over it. We think we have agency over our bodies, minds, and even over the manner of our deaths. The latest science shows that our bodies are not always in our favor.

We can either buy expensive antiaging products, get preventive screenings, or eat more kale. The illusion of control is only offered by these things. The important challenge of this book is how to live well, even joyously, while accepting our mortality.

Drawing on a variety of sources, from personal experience and sociological trends to pop culture and current scientific literature. There are natural causes. We focus on death, our bodies, and our health. Ehrenreich tackles the seemingly unsolvable problem of how we might better prepare ourselves for the end, while still enjoying the lives that remain to us.