Shaking Hands With Death

[Tonyblack]

I just heard about this through my Facebook feed.

‘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.’
You may have seen it on BBC1 or read it in A Slip of the Keyboard and now on 30th July, Shaking Hands With Death, Terry’s most important essay on Alzheimer’s and our right to a dignified death, will be available as a standalone book, with a new introduction by Rob Wilkins.

Shaking Hands With Death.

 

[Catch-up]

Oh boy. That's going to be hard to read.

 

[Aquamarine]

I remember seeing the Richard Dimbleby Lecture, when Tony Robinson read this essay for old Pratchett. I concur with Catch-up.

 

[ThinkingFox]

I remember seeing the Richard Dimbleby Lecture, when Tony Robinson read this essay for old Pratchett. I concur with Catch-up.

For those looking for the recording of the Richard Dimbleby Lecture it can currently be viewed on YouTube here:

 

[RathDarkblade]

Yes, I saw it back then. It's harrowing viewing, but compelling.

 

[Tonyblack]

I don't know whether you have all seen Terry in Imagination not intelligence made us human

 

[Tonyblack]

Also (more difficult to watch - be warned!) Terry Pratchett - Back In Black

 

[RathDarkblade]

Yep - seen 'em both. I'm a member of The Wheeler Centre, and I read the transcript of "Imagination". It's certainly thought-provoking, as well as funny.

"Back in Black" is ... yes, difficult. (I can't think of a better word). I can't watch it without tearing up.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Thanks Tony, I hadn't realised that Back in Black was available on youtube, great to see it again

 

[bob003]

You may have seen it on BBC1 or read it in A Slip of the Keyboard and now on 30th July, Shaking Hands With Death, Terry’s most important essay on Alzheimer’s and our right to a dignified death, will be available as a standalone book, with a new introduction by Rob Wilkins.

Yeah, that essay work is awesome. I've re-read it several times.