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Terry Pratchett

Novelist

United Kingdom · 1948–2015

Arts and letters

About

English novelist, best known for the forty-one Discworld books, whose work has sold more than eighty-five million copies. He announced in December 2007 that he had been diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare variant of early-onset Alzheimer's disease, and spent his remaining years writing, funding dementia research and arguing publicly for a legal right to an assisted death. He died of natural causes at home in March 2015.

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Question How would you like to die? Death & what remains read 45 other answers →

I remember what George said and vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the "Brompton cocktail" some helpful medic could supply. And with Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.

Recorded Edited extract from the Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Shaking Hands With Death, Royal College of Physicians, broadcast on BBC1 on 1 February 2010, The Guardian, 2 February 2010 source ↗

Question Has knowing that you will die changed how you live? Death & what remains read 12 other answers →

Let us consider me as a test case. As I have said, I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that will not be for quite some time to come, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds. If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

Recorded Edited extract from the Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Shaking Hands With Death, broadcast on BBC1 on 1 February 2010, The Guardian, 2 February 2010 source ↗

Question Are you afraid of death? Death & what remains read 21 other answers →

Did the Victorians fear death? As Death says in one of my own books, most men don't fear death, they fear those things – the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb – that proceed, by micro seconds if you're lucky and many years if you're not, the moment of death.

Recorded Edited extract from the Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Shaking Hands With Death, broadcast on BBC1 on 1 February 2010, The Guardian, 2 February 2010 source ↗

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