A beginner's guide to dying
A beginner's guide to dying
Book - 2025
"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. This book traces Boas' exploration of this practice"--
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| 37413322491954 | Available | Non-fiction | 616.994 BOAS |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,
2025.
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| Edition: | First Vintage Books edition. |
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| 500 | |a "Originally published in Great Britain by Swift Press in 2024"--Title page verso. | ||
| 500 | |a "The kernel of this little book is three articles which I wrote for my local paper, the Jersey Evening Post, between being diagnosed with advanced throat cancer (in the summer of 2023) and dying of it (in the next few weeks)"--Foreword. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-122). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Jersey Evening Post articles -- Death and equanimity -- A beginner's guide to interacting with the dying. | |
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