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Every Third Thought On Life Death And The Endgame
Every Third Thought On Life Death And The Endgame
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Description: As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Moving intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic Melvyn Bragg Thoughtful subtle elegantly clever and oddly joyous Every Third Thought is beautiful Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty - two Robert Mc Crum suffered a dramatic and near - fatal stroke. Since that life - changing event Mc Crum has lived in the shadow of death unavoidably aware of his own mortality. And now in his sixties he is noticing a change: his friends are joining him there. Death has become his contemporaries every third thought. And so with the words of Mc Crum's favourite authors as travel companions Every Third Thought takes us on a journey towards death itself. This is a deeply personal book of reflection and conversation with brain surgeons psychologists hospice workers and patients writers and poets and it confronts an existential question: in a world where we have learnt to live well at all costs can we make peace with dying?
Title: Every Third Thought On Life Death And The Endgame
Author(s): Mccrum Robert
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781509815296
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 7/12/2018
Category: Coping With Death & Bereavement
Description: As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Moving intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic Melvyn Bragg Thoughtful subtle elegantly clever and oddly joyous Every Third Thought is beautiful Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty - two Robert Mc Crum suffered a dramatic and near - fatal stroke. Since that life - changing event Mc Crum has lived in the shadow of death unavoidably aware of his own mortality. And now in his sixties he is noticing a change: his friends are joining him there. Death has become his contemporaries every third thought. And so with the words of Mc Crum's favourite authors as travel companions Every Third Thought takes us on a journey towards death itself. This is a deeply personal book of reflection and conversation with brain surgeons psychologists hospice workers and patients writers and poets and it confronts an existential question: in a world where we have learnt to live well at all costs can we make peace with dying?
Title: Every Third Thought On Life Death And The Endgame
Author(s): Mccrum Robert
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781509815296
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 7/12/2018
Category: Coping With Death & Bereavement