{"product_id":"9781529971323","title":"Shaking Hands With Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Pratchett, Terry \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 02\/10\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 80 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529971323,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful clothbound pocket edition of Sir Terry Pratchett’s essay on why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a new Afterword by Peter Serafinowiczand an updated Introduction by Rob Wilkins'Eloquent and essential' Guardian'A poignant, thought-provoking, sometimes funny, always brilliant read' 5-star reader review‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this essay, broadcast to millions as the BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture, he argues for our right to choose – our right to a good life, and a good death too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55823597928821,"sku":"9781529971323","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529971323.jpg?v=1755849915","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529971323","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}