Shaking Hands With Death

<b>A beautiful clothbound pocket edition of Sir Terry Pratchett’s essay on why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for.</b><br><br><b>With a new Afterword by Peter Serafinowicz</b><br>and an updated Introduction by Rob Wilkins<br><br><b>'Eloquent and essential' </b><i>Guardian</i><br><br><b>'A poignant, thought-provoking, sometimes funny, always brilliant read' </b>5-star reader review<br><br><br><i>‘Most men don’t fear death. They fear those things – the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb – which precede, by microseconds if you’re lucky, and many years if you’re not, the moment of death.’</i><br><br>When Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in his fifties he was angry - not with death but with the disease that would take him there, and with the suffering disease can cause when we are not allowed to put an end to it.<br><br><b>In this essay, broadcast to millions as the BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture, he argues for our right to choose – our right to a good life, and a good death too.</b>