A Beginner's Guide to Dying - Signed Bookplate Paperback Edition

by Boas, Simon | Coping with death & bereavement
Published 14/08/2025 by Swift Press in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 160 pages
197 x 129 x 14mm | 148g

Signed Paperback Edition

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 Barnet

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.