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Every Third Thought: On Life, Death, and the Endgame

As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week`Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic` Melvyn Bragg`Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful` Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke. Since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the shadow of death, unavoidably aware of his own mortality. And now, in his sixties, he is noticing a change: his friends are joining him there. Death has become his contemporaries` every third thought.And so, with the words of McCrum`s favourite authors as travel companions, Every Third Thought takes us on a journey towards death itself. This is a deeply personal book of reflection and conversation – with brain surgeons, psychologists, hospice workers and patients, writers and poets, and it confronts an existential question: in a world where we have learnt to live well at all costs, can we make peace with dying?

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