Coup de grâce Coup de grâce A coup de grâce (; French for "blow of mercy") is a death blow to end the suffering of a severely wounded person or animal. It may be a mercy killing of civilians or soldiers, friends or enemies, with or without the sufferer's consent. Examples of "coup de grâce" include shooting the heart or head (typically the back of the skull) of a wounded, but still living, person during an execution or by humanely killing a suffering, mortally wounded soldier, in war, for whom medical aid is not available. In pre-firearms eras the wounded were finished with
Ego Is the Enemy In the weeks after its release, the book was listed by "Inc." as one of the must-read business books that summer. The book went on to achieve bestseller status lists by "USA Today", "Chicago Tribune", and "Publishers Weekly". Ego Is the Enemy Ego Is the Enemy is the fourth book by author Ryan Holiday, published on June 14, 2016. It is about the treacherous nature of ego. Having previously written about external obstacles in his book "The Obstacle Is the Way", Holiday sought to answer questions about what to do when the biggest obstacle is internal. In the prologue of