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This Is Not the End of Me

Lessons on Living from a Dying Man

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This Is Not the End of Me

Auteur(s): Dakshana Bascaramurty
Narrateur(s): Farah Merani, A. K. Wilson
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 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2020
CBC – The Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2020
The Globe and Mail’s Globe 100: Our Favourite Books of 2020
Chatelaine’s 10 Best Books of 2020
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For readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Will Schwalbe, the moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty-three, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son.

i can't make you feel what it's like to be a young, dumb, naïve thirty-year-old sitting in the back of a walk-in clinic waiting to be handed what is essentially a death sentence any more than i can show you what it feels like to have a husband or father or child who's dying and knowing there is nothing you can do to stop it. i can only describe to you how i feel today. angry. at peace. scared. grateful. a giant, spiky, flowering heart-shaped bouquet of contradictions.

Layton Reid was a globe-trotting, risk-taking, sunshine-addicted bachelor--then came a melanoma diagnosis. Cancer startled him out of his arrested development--he returned home to Halifax to work as a wedding photographer--and remission launched him into a new, passionate life as a husband and father-to-be. When the melanoma returned, now at Stage IV, Layton and his family put all their stock into a punishing alternative therapy, hoping for a cure. This Is Not the End of Me recounts Layton's three-year journey as he tried desperately to stay alive for his young son, Finn, and then found purpose in preparing Finn for a world without him.

With incredible intimacy, grit, and empathy, reporter Dakshana Bascaramurty casts an unsentimental eye on who her good friend was: his effervescence, his twisted wit, his anger, his vulnerability. Interweaving Layton's own reflections--his diaries written for Finn, his letters to his wife, Candace, and his public journal--she paints a keenly observed portrait of Layton's remarkable evolution. In detailing the ugly, surprising, and occasionally funny ways in which Layton and his family faced his mortality, the book offers an unflinching look at how a person dies, and how we might build a legacy in our information-saturated age.

Powerful and unvarnished, This is Not the End of Me is about someone who didn't get a very happy ending, but learned to squeeze as much life as possible from his final days. Développement personnel Monde médical Perte et deuil Professionnels et universitaires Relations Mariage
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This is a moving account of a father's love. The story is quite linear, it's an easy listen despite the heavy subject matter.

Very moving

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Well written, down-to-earth. Your heart will go out to the family. Be prepared to share a lot of tears!

Very moving story.

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Gotta say, it became rather maudlin. Most of the book dwelt on his toddler son - had a lot of “cute” experiences. Not much about him actually talking about the experience of dying - the fear, strangeness. Not a peep about MAID ( doctor assisted suicide). But lots of “cute” stories about divvying up his ashes, and having videos for his son. Considering he was into his 30s after roaming around without a real purpose for years, his death seemed like a stage for him to be “heroic” for posterity , especially knowing that the author was writing a book about him while he was dying. This isn’t a book with very meaningful incites into what we are all going to deal with at some point.

Hmmmm...

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