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A Beginner's Guide to Dying

A Beginner's Guide to Dying

Boas, Simon

Paperback

Biographies GeneralDeath & Dying

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN13: 9798217007745
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jul 15 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Lessons for all of us in how to approach life--from someone in the process of dying. - Simon Boas was a gifted storyteller with a rare ability to find humor and humanity in life's most profound moments. A Beginner's Guide to Dying showcases his wit, warmth, and wisdom, offering a deeply moving and unexpectedly funny meditation on mortality. --Hospice Nurse Julie McFadden, author of Nothing to Fear

In his mid-40s, aid worker Simon Boas was diagnosed with incurable cancer--it had been caught too late, and spread throughout his body. But he was determined to die as he had learned to live--optimistically, thinking the best of people, and prioritizing what really matters in life. Deemed a funny, touching meditation on death by the Sunday Times, this warm and wise book offers lessons for all of us in how to approach life.

The advice includes: Do get in touch, but don't just turn up unaccounted, and Do listen, but don't minimize things. And just as wisely: to exist is to have won the lottery of life.

This remarkable book, a runaway bestseller in the UK, is not just a meditation on dying, but also a hymn to the joy and preciousness of life. A Beginner's Guide to Dying is destined to become a modern classic.

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