{"product_id":"a-beginners-guide-to-dying-paperback","title":"A Beginner's Guide to Dying - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINTERNATIONAL 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. \u003ci\u003eA Beginner's Guide to Dying\u003c\/i\u003e showcases his wit, warmth, and wisdom, offering a deeply moving and unexpectedly funny meditation on mortality.\" --Hospice Nurse Julie McFadden, author of \u003ci\u003eNothing to Fear\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, this warm and wise book offers lessons for all of us in how to approach life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eA Beginner's Guide to Dying \u003c\/i\u003eis destined to become a modern classic.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51295402918111,"sku":"9798217007745","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VSs5ZO6MBz9798217007745.webp?v=1788090732","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/a-beginners-guide-to-dying-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}