{"product_id":"why-stay-alive-aham-igbokwe-9781918518160","title":"Why Stay Alive?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSome questions cannot be avoided forever.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot the comfortable ones - \u003cem\u003ehow do I cope, how do I improve, how do I endure.\u003c\/em\u003e But the one underneath all of those. The one that surfaces when nothing else is working.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy stay alive?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book does not flinch from that question. It does not rush to answer it. Instead, it does something rarer: it investigates honestly - examining everything human beings reach for when life implodes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePleasure. Achievement. Relationships. Identity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eControl. Escape. Meaning. Clinical stabilisation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAncient wisdom. The defiance of remaining.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach is examined seriously. Each is found - at the point of maximum pressure - insufficient.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd then something else is found.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, history, and literature - from Viktor Frankl and Albert Camus to C.S. Lewis, Blaise Pascal, and Leo Tolstoy - this investigation follows the question wherever it leads, without deciding in advance where it ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author is not writing from the other side of this question. He has carried it himself - not theoretically, but across thirty years of a life that has tested every anchor described in these pages. He's a senior cybersecurity consultant who has worked for Fortune 20 companies and serves as a Justice of the Peace for England and Wales. He writes as someone who has not resolved the question - and who refuses to pretend otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this book is: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA rigorous investigation, not a self-help programme\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHonest about what does not hold - and what does\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten for readers inside the question and those who love them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAccessible across philosophical, psychological, and faith traditions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe finding is not what you might expect. It is more honest than that.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have felt the weight of the question - or if you love someone who has - this investigation was written for you. Turn to page one. The search begins there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aham Igbokwe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1918518165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781918518160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e @Iampastoraham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Aham Igbokwe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997575164159,"sku":"9781918518160","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/why-stay-alive-aham-igbokwe-9781918518160","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}