It’s easy to take it all for granted and go through life feeling invincible—especially if you’ve spent your life successfully facing challenges, overcoming obstacles in the way, and working hard to improve yourself both mentally and physically. Yet for all of us, this feeling of invincibility is an illusion.

From Sudden Death to Paradise explains how one man’s near-death experience shattered his illusion of immortality but brought him back to God as the true source of love, happiness, and meaning.