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Excitement While Dying

Name: Excitement While Dying
Author: Santiago Vilas

Auteur: Santiago Vilas

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Santiago Vilas

Engels
Hardcover
9781514450994
05 februari 2016
116 pagina's

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In essence, this novel challenges the readers conceptual perception of the here and there. Upon unexpectedly being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and sentenced to die in three months, the protagonist makes a rare commitment. Instead of lamenting and crying for his bad fortune, he decides to search for credible answers to fundamental questions and anxieties when facing deathfrom the accuracy of the medical diagnosis to where he will go after death, to which documents to prepare for his family, and how to get spiritually ready to die. In his three months of waiting to die, he had a visit to a cemetery at midnight, an insight on domestic violence when he accidentally meets a woman, his modern interpretation of concepts such as euthanasia and pedophilia, and he defied the usual medical warning to patients in losing their desire for intimacy when diagnosed with terminal cancer. A reader, whether healthy or in a situation similar to the protagonists, may identify with one or two of the causes of his anguish, while another may embrace all of the above. A few samples are as follows: Who is dying? The me I created and know or the me created by some supreme entity? I cannot be prostrated. I cannot accept to be dead until after I have died. Ubi sunt? Where are they, those who were before us? Feeling loneliness becomes pleasant when shared with someone. Assisted suicide is an insult to the patients personal integrity. Say last therapy. I am dying; thus, dying is not my main concern but rather whether I am convinced of being ready to die. Money is the number one cause of corruption, but I see that the United States honors it by printing the motto In God we trust on all dollar bills. We die today in ways quite different from how we used to die some decades ago.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 februari 2016
Aantal pagina's: 116
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Santiago Vilas
Hoofduitgeverij: Xlibris

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 11 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 11 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 327 g

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