A Beginner's Guide to Dying

<p><strong>As featured on BBC Radio 4</strong></p><p><strong>''Funny and touching'' <em>Sunday Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>''Extraordinary'' <em>Observer</em><br>''Full of both wisdom and humour'' Julia Samuel<br>''Funny, moving, brave'' Jeremy Bowen<br>''I had the privilege to conduct Simon’s last broadcast interview - knowing his wise words on the page could live on afterwards'' Emma Barnett</strong></p><p><strong>*****READER REVIEWS</strong></p><p><strong>''Simon’s cheerful voice comes through every page''<br>''An absolute gift of a book ... This book has the potential to change your life''<br>''Stunning''</strong></p><p><strong><em>It isn''t quite ''Don''t buy any green bananas''. But it''s close to ''Don''t start any long books''.</em></strong></p><p>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.</p><p>In<em> A Beginner’s Guide to Dying</em> 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.</p>