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Simon Boas was diagnosed with throat cancer at 46 and told it would take his life.
Over the following year he knitted together his reflections on life into a book.
The book, A Beginner 's Guide to Dying, is set to hit shelves in October .
In what he expects to be one of his final interviews on the Today Programme .
I'm sort of - not looking forward to my final day - of course that's the wrong way to see it. But I'm kind of curious about it, and I'm happy and I'm ready. As Julian of Norwich said: "All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well." Simon Boas expects to move into a hospice on Thursday where he will be spending his final days surrounded by his family. When the Today Programme checked in with him that morning he was, unsurprisingly, in good spirts..
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