# A Beginner’s Guide to Dying

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- Authors: [Simon Boas](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-boas)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2024-09-12
- Genres: Popular psychology

## Description

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.

## Editions

### A Beginners Guide to Dying

- Publisher: Swift Press
- ISBN: 978-18-0075-521-5
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2025-07-28
- Language: en_US

### A Beginner's Guide to Dying

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 979-82-1700-774-5
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2025-07-15
- Language: en_US

### A Beginner’s Guide to Dying

- Publisher: Swift Press Audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-18-0075-505-5
- Published: 2024-09-12
- Language: en_GB