As featured on BBC Radio 4 ´Funny and touching´ Sunday Times ´Extraordinary´ Observer ´Full of both wisdom and humour´ Julia Samuel ´Funny, moving, brave´ Jeremy Bowen ´I had the privilege to conduct Simon’s last broadcast interview - knowing his wise words on the page could live on afterwards´ Emma Barnett *****READER REVIEWS ´Simon’s cheerful voice comes through every page´ ´An absolute gift of a book ... This book has the potential to change your life´ ´Stunning´ 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.