How My Death Saved My Life is the remarkable story of author Denise Linn. In this triumphant autobiography, Denise speaks with a compassionate yet fiery conviction, born of deep pain, as she describes overcoming the horror of an abusive childhood and the terror of being stricken down by a sniper's bullet. From the mundane to the mystical, follow Denise's inner and outer journeys as she grows up in various homes from a renovated chicken coop, to abandoned army barracks, to the slums of Chicago, to an Ohio farming community.Travel with her as she is fired on by a plane in Yugoslavia, is tear gassed during antiwar riots, explores the sexual revolution in the 60's, lives in a Buddhist monastery, and travels to native cultures to become one of the worlds most sought after speakers and a best selling author.