WHEN I DIE: LESSONS FROM THE DEATH ZONE

Book ID/图书代码： 04300012B54161

English Summary/英文概要： Written during the last few months of Philip Gould’s life, this is a hugely inspiring and ultimately uplifting look at his ’lessons from the death zone.’

On 29th January 2008, Philip Gould was told he had cancer. He was stoical and set about his treatment, determined to fight his illness. In the face of difficult decisions, he sought always to understand the disease and the various medical option available to him, supported by his wife Gail and their two daughters, Georgia and Grace.

In 2010, after two hard years of chemotherapy and surgery, the tests came up clear - Philip appeared to have won the battle. But his work as a key stategist for the Labour party took its toll and feeling ill six months later, he insisted on one extra, precautionary test, which told him that the cancer had returned. Thus began Philip’s long, painful but ultimately optimistic journey towards death, during which time he began to appreciate and make sense of his life, his work and his relationships in a way he never though possible. He realised something that he had never heard articulated before: death need not be negative or painful, it can be life-affirming and revelatory.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 站在即將長眠之處,他坦然接受了這一切

Philip Gould 是英國工黨重要的決策幕僚之一，也是前首相布萊爾的顧問。在新工黨時期(The New Labour era)的重大政策必能看到他的身影。2008 年Philip Gould發現罹患食道癌，如同面對艱困的政局一樣，他沉著冷靜面對自己的病情，接受治療，全心對抗病魔，歷經兩年多的治療他戰勝了病魔。
2010 Philip Gould重返政壇，在選戰中成為工黨的主要操盤手。大選結果，工黨敗選交出首相的位置。半年後Gould的癌症復發，醫生宣告他的生命只剩三個月。
政治曾是Gould生命中的第一順位，但這次他不再講政治了。
面對生命走向已知的盡頭時，人們不免感到悲傷。但Gould決定接受上天的安排，在最後幾個月傾盡全力完成本書，四年多的抗癌人生，他只想好好傳達「死亡」不是只有負面、悲傷的，從死亡我們將可以學習到更多人生的體悟…(Iris)

Awards/获奖情况：相關影片：
在生前最後兩週，作者用八分鐘的短片紀錄分享與家人相處的時光，並來到即將長眠之處留影。當中作者提到：生命走向盡頭時，各種情緒不斷的侵襲有恐懼、不安、悲傷，但只要有堅定的意念，許多痛苦都能迎刃而解。http://youtu.be/S2eUw0CUuMc

Review:
• Sunday Times, Jenni Russell: ‘the book’s power comes from the urgency and simplicity of the message… At a time when few of us know how to face the inevitability of our own instinction, Gould has provided an admirable model’

• The Times: book of the week, Richard Holloway: ‘This was a brave man… in the old days, they used to say the dead always send a gift back as they leave us, so we should watch out for it. That is what happened here’

• Observer, Justin Cartwright: ‘I urge you to read the book for what it is also: a brave and unique account of facing death by looking it squarely in the face’

• The Lady, Rachel Johnson:‘I read it in one sitting, and conclude that it should really be prescribed on the NHS. Even though it’s a short and harrowing account of one man’s dying, it also is the most life-enhancing book I’ve ever read’

• Telegraph.co.uk, Matthew D’Ancona: ‘In politics, as in life, purpose is all. Nobody understood that better than the late Labour strategist Philip Gould, whose extraordinarily moving book, When I Die: Lessons from the Death Zone, has just been published posthumously. Gould grasped that everything – even death itself – should be approached strategically. The book is inspiring in its discussion of mortality; but, like everything Gould wrote, it is also a manual for those undertaking any task, political or otherwise, and trying to make sense of it to themselves and to others’

About the Author/作者介绍： 上議院成員，政治顧問Philip Gould，曾是公關公司Freud Communications副主席。而後在首相布萊爾與工黨之間扮演連結的角色，是新工黨時代的重要成員！豐富的政治經歷使他成為倫敦政經學院的客座教授。曾出版過The Unfinished Revolution一書。2008年發現得到食道癌。抗癌兩年病情一度獲得控制。在2010後半年發現癌細胞過散，最後於2011年底病逝。
Philip Gould was polling and strategic advisor to Tony Blair and was deputy chairman of Freud Communications. He was a visiting professor in media and politics at the London School of Economics and a member of the House of Lords, as well as the author of THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION. Philip Gould died at the age of sixty-one in 2011.

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