{"product_id":"a-beginners-guide-to-dying-9798217007745","title":"A Beginner's Guide to Dying","description":"\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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimon Boas was born in 1977 and spent his childhood in London and Winchester. He spent his career working for development charities across the globe as well as the UN. At 46, he was diagnosed with advanced throat cancer. In the year following, he wrote pieces about happiness and illness for his local paper, which went viral, encouraging him to expand. \u003ci\u003eA Beginner's Guide to Dying \u003c\/i\u003eis the result.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51454133829906,"sku":"9798217007745","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2d0d47f3-9dde-4d7f-b2f2-b36751154982.jpg?v=1751997102","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-beginners-guide-to-dying-9798217007745","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}