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A Beginner's Guide to Dying

By: Simon Boas
Narrated by: Simon Boas
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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.

©2024 Simon Boas (P)2024 Swift Press Audio Death & Dying Grief & Loss Personal Development Sociology
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Simon, you were a very good friend of my daughter Sam when you were tour leaders together in Egypt. You have left this world but given us all hope & peace with your words to pass on.
I’m so sad I never had the chance to meet you.

Simons final view of the world he left behind.

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