Dying every day is the first book to tell the compelling and nightmarish story of the philosopher poet who was almost a king tied to a tyrant as seneca the paragon of reason watched his student spiral into madness and whose descent saw five family murders the fire of rome and a savage purge that destroyed the supreme minds of the senate . Dying every day a wonderful title by james romm is a compact well researched and well written study of the emperor nero and his relationship to the philosopher seneca who served as neros tutor and counselor. Dying every day is a portrait of senecas moral struggle in the midst of madness and excess in his treatises seneca preached a rigorous ethical creed exalting heroes who defied danger to do what was right or embrace a noble death. People are dying every day aakash shah is the medical director of new jersey reentry corporation and an emergency physician jim mcgreevey a former new jersey governor is the chair of the new . Dying every day is the first book to tell the compelling and nightmarish story of the philosopher poet who was almost a king tied to a tyrant as seneca the paragon of reason watched his student spiral into madness and whose descent saw five family murders the fire of rome and a savage purge that destroyed the supreme minds of the senate