Read by: Simon Boas
Language: English
Length: 2 hours and 19 minutes
Publisher: Swift Press Audio
Release date: 2024-09-12
Platform | Country | Chart | Last Rank | Last Ranked At |
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Apple | Top Audiobooks - Self-Development | 40 | September 19, 2024 |
It isn't quite 'Don't buy any green bananas'. But it's close to 'Don't start any long books'.
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.