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Beginner's Guide to Dying, A / Simon Boas

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As featured on BBC Radio 4

'Funny and touching' Sunday Times

'Extraordinary' Observer

'Full of both wisdom and humour' Julia Samuel

'Funny, moving, brave' Jeremy Bowen

'I had the privilege to conduct Simon’s last broadcast interview - knowing his wise words on the page could live on afterwards' Emma Barnett

In his mid-40s, Simon Boas was diagnosed with incurable cancer – it had been caught too late, and spread around his body. But he was determined to die as he had learned to live – optimistically, thinking the best of people, and prioritising what really matters in life.

In A Beginner’s Guide to Dying Simon considers and collates the things that have given him such a great sense of peace and contentment, and why dying at 46 really isn’t so bad.

And for that reason it’s also only partly about ‘dying’.

It is mostly a hymn to the joy and preciousness of life, and why giving death a place can help all of us make even more of it.