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Shaking Hands With Death

Author: Terry Pratchett  

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Terry Pratchett on our right to a good life and a good death - the text of his landmark BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture now available as a standalone volume with a new introduction by Rob Wilkins.

Why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for‘Most men don’t fear death.

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Terry Pratchett on our right to a good life and a good death - the text of his landmark BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture now available as a standalone volume with a new introduction by Rob Wilkins.

Why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for‘Most men don’t fear death.

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Terry Pratchett on our right to a good life and a good death - the text of his landmark BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture now available as a standalone volume with a new introduction by Rob Wilkins.Why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for'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.'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. In this essay, broadcast to millions as the BBC Richard Dimblebly Lecture 2010 and previously only available as part of A Slip of the Keyboard, he argues for our right to choose - our right to a good life, and a good death too.

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About the Author

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.

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Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd | Corgi Books
Published
30th July 2015
Pages
64
ISBN
9780552172776

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