Shaking Hands With Death

Shaking Hands With DeathCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781529971323 Format: Paper over boards Year: 2025 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK Description: A beautiful clothbound pocket edition of Sir Terry Pratchett's essay on life and death, with an updated Introduction by Rob Wilkins A beautiful clothbound edition of Sir Terry Pratchett's essay on why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for With an updated Introduction by Rob Wilkins 'Most men don't fear death.

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781529971323
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK


Description:
A beautiful clothbound pocket edition of Sir Terry Pratchett's essay on life and death, with an updated Introduction by Rob Wilkins



A beautiful clothbound edition of Sir Terry Pratchett's essay on why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for




With an updated Introduction by Rob Wilkins



'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 Dimbleby Lecture, he argues for our right to choose - our right to a good life, and a good death too.