Bibliograph

This is not the end of me, lessons on living from a dying man, Dakshana Bascaramurty

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This is not the end of me, lessons on living from a dying man, Dakshana Bascaramurty

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This is not the end of me

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Dakshana Bascaramurty

Sub title

lessons on living from a dying man

Summary

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

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