{"product_id":"a-beginners-guide-to-dying","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.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48003194224829,"sku":"BS-TC0-007745","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9798217007745-HD.jpg?v=1786878999","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/a-beginners-guide-to-dying","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}