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Contents
Dedications
Introduction
- The present – I am dying
- The final frontier
- Which of the three biggest killers is most likely to get me?
- How would I like to die?
- The social taboo of death
- A culture terrified of death
- Can you have a dignified death?
- An Irish Wake
- How to die 2
- When are we dead?
- The sequence of my death
- Karma
- How am I doing at sixty-seven?
- Dying inside? Yes!
- Sam my dog
- Anecdote – reporting my death
- Seventy-four
- Downsizing
- Writing the Death Diaries
- The elderly lady and Hat
- Reassessment
- I’m still not dead
- Downsizing – We did it!
- Life and creativity
- Which killer?
- Still waiting
- From beyond the grave
- Which of us will go first?
- Life goes on
- Fit and healthy
- Death can wait another day
- So what have I got to live for?
- Liz’s burial wishes
- Leaving my body to medical science
- Too old
- Deaths of friends
- Rites and ceremonies
- Guides for death
- Death of a parent
- Legacies
- Current situation
- Indecision
- Present day – death of politics
- Cunning plans for the future
- Cataracts
- Being an old man
- We are all dying
- Reflections
- What happens after death?
- When we are dead?
- Medical science
- Lessons from a long life
- Death rituals – Bali
- Religious ceremonies
- Spiritualism
- Air burials
- Life after death
- State of health update
- Death is natural – We are programmed in our DNA
- Mexico – The Day of the Dead
- What actually will happen as we die
- Benefits of being old
- This book is frustrating – I’m still here!
- Epitaphs
- Where does it lead?
- Post death revelations
- Celebration of my life
- Death of my Dad
- Enjoying the sun
- More death rituals
- Life after death
- Mum and spiritualism
- Egocentric solipsism and other death philosophies
- My Mum’s death
- Lies
- Souls, spirits and essence
- Spirituality
- How am I doing at seventy-six?
- The existentials – Sartre, De Beauvois and Camus
- Quantum Death
- Fast or slow?
- Death Cleaning
- The Native American girl on the Greyhound Bus
- Assisted dying
- Thanks for DEATH!
- What’s going to happen to me?
- Perhaps there is no death after all?
- This could be the last time! May be the last time, I don’t know.
- Deathbed regrets
- How is this book going to end?