The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Book Club Discussion Prompts

• What do you think the real message of this book is? (Purpose, connection, forgiveness, something else?)

• Did your view of Eddie change throughout the story?

  • What moment shifted your perspective most?

• Which of the five people impacted you the deepest?

  • What did their lesson reveal to you?

• The book says there are no random lives and no random acts.

  • Do you believe that? Why or why not?

• How did the story frame the idea of an “ordinary” life?

  • Did it make you rethink the value of your own day-to-day?

• Forgiveness runs through every layer of this book.

  • Which moment of forgiveness struck you the most?

• If you could add a sixth person for Eddie to meet, who would it be and what lesson would they bring?

• Which character do you think Eddie needed the most?

  • Not the one you liked most but the one he spiritually required.

• Did this book shift anything in the way you think about death or the afterlife?

• If you met five people in your own heaven, who do you think one of them would be and what do you think they would try to teach you?

• What is one lesson from this book that you want to carry into your life now?

  • What would that look like in your daily life?