their technicalities, cleverness and desire to develop a complete and coherent account of what it is to be human, they lose sight of the real experience of humanity and become ‘untrue’ and irrelevant in a sense. In all his writings he is passionately committed to communicate from heart to heart, to help ‘his reader’, that person who reads his works at a distance in time and place, to think deeply about his or her life and to make decisions about how to live—and how to die. Kierkegaard has been described