I Forgot to Die, Khalil Rafati
I Forgot to Die, Khalil Rafati
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I Forgot to Die

Author: Khalil Rafati

Narrator: Khalil Rafati

Unabridged: 6 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/23/2017


Synopsis

Khalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 1990s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie stars and legendary rock musicians, but it wasn't long before he found his way into the dark underbelly of the City of Angels.

When he hit rock bottom—addicted to heroin and cocaine, overtaken by paranoia and psychosis, written off by his friends and family—he grabbed a shovel and kept digging. At thirty-three, Khalil was 109 pounds, a convicted felon, high school dropout, and homeless junkie living on the infamous Skid Row in downtown L.A.

So how does someone with nothing, who feels like they deserve nothing, and who just wants to end it all turn their life around?

I Forgot to Die is an incredible true story of pain, suffering, addiction, and redemption—and how one man ultimately conquered his demons and wrote himself a new life story.

About Khalil Rafati

Khalil Rafati is a speaker, author, and health-and-wellness entrepreneur. He has been a dog walker, a nanny, a car detailer, a furniture maker, a rehab counselor, a restaurant manager, and a drug dealer.

Today, he is the owner of Malibu Beach Yoga and SunLife Organics, a rapidly growing chain of popular juice and smoothie bars in California. He also founded Riviera Recovery, a transitional living facility for drug addicts and alcoholics, and is a board member of the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Bylakuppe, India.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nina (ninjasbooks) on May 05, 2024

What a survivor! I’m especially impressed by how organized it was, it couldn’t have been easy to write it coherently considering how unstable the authors life was.......more

Goodreads review by Dmitry on April 12, 2024

The book that was given to me by the editor of my first novel. I don't know what she meant by this, but I still love it when people give me books. It's auto-fiction written in an American motivational style. However, it's a story about a California junkie who spent several years on heroin, and turne......more

Goodreads review by Diane on July 10, 2016

It's pretty darn amazing that Khalil did NOT die. He had more close calls than a cat with nine lives. Every time I thought that he'd reached rock bottom, he would find a new way to tempt the gods of fate. He spared us none of the seedy details. His mind and body kept rebelling, yet he'd invent new w......more

Goodreads review by Rose on March 25, 2016

I don't usually read these kinds of books. I was waiting around at SunLife for my delicious Wolverine smoothie & there was a shelf full of these books lined up. I saw the title which caught my eye & then cringed at the front cover- the photograph is quite something. Still, I am a reader & I'd left m......more

Goodreads review by میعاد on May 06, 2021

داستان عجیب و جذابی داشت که می‌تونست بهتر و درگیرکننده‌تر روایت شه (: ۳/۵......more