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Not the Last Goodbye: On Life, Death, Healing, and Cancer Audiobook
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I knew the prognosis. Sooner or later, it would come back. I could slow down the inevitable; I could gain a few years. But there was nothing I could do to make this cancer disappear forever. So this was it. This was the relapse. The Big One.
Nineteen years after his original diagnosis, having taken up a worldwide mission toward hope and alternatives for those with cancer, David Servan-Schreiber submits to an emergency MRI that confirms his greatest fear: the brain cancer has returned. Here he shares his coming to terms with the news and, with courage and candor, examines his life from the point of view of one who understands that his illness is terminal. As the author of and spokesman for the Anticancer program, a doctor who has given hope to millions of readers and patients, David frankly acknowledges the challenges of adopting a fully “anticancer” lifestyle in today’s world and weighs the choices involved in doing so. Weaving in the stories of a number of clinical cases, he reaffirms the program that enhanced and extended his life and the lives of so many others. From nutrition and exercise to rest and meditation, the protocol he followed allowed him to live to the fullest for two decades beyond medical expectation.
The story he tells raises many of the most complex and personal questions about how we choose to live and how we prepare for death, striking a delicate balance between the limits of medicine and the hope that sustains us as we confront them. It is powerful, honest, and truly inspiring.
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"The author is facing death as he has embraced life: fully and without fear. This is like the little manual on how to live better to die better. Very inspiring, brave and honest, and loving. I feel we lost someone really important...will read "Anticancer"."
— Anne (4 out of 5 stars)
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“A book of dignity, sincerity, and breathtaking beauty…In this often joyous account, David Servan-Schreiber helps us look at death and prepare ourselves to die well. It’s a very powerful read that inspires deep appreciation.”
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“Each word rings true, each memory lingers, each detail of his life…brings us closer to the human condition. This book is a gift.”
— Elle -
“A book that is as lucid as it is personal…Brave, bright, committed.”
— Le Temps (Geneva) -
“With poignant simplicity and heartbreaking humility, recently deceased psychiatrist Servan-Schreiber recounts the events of the year preceding his final battle with brain cancer…A profoundly human book that touches readers with a rare and healing candor.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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" This book made me curious about David's book called Anticancer "
— Sharon, 11/25/2013 -
" Definitely not the book for everyone. If you are at the point in your life where you know you have to start treating each day and moment as precious and walk side by side with the reality of our eventual demise then this book is a great comfort. "
— Jean, 11/12/2012
About David Servan-Schreiber
David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD (1961–2011), was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and cofounder of the Center for Integrative Medicine. He codirected a laboratory at the National Institute of Health for the study of clinical cognitive neuroscience and published more than ninety articles in scientific journals. His last book, Anticancer: A New Way of Life, became a New York Times bestseller and was translated into more than forty languages. Following a year-long battle with a relapse of brain cancer, he died in July 2011.
About Mark Bramhall
Arthur Morey has won three AudioFile Magazine “Best Of” Awards, and his work has garnered numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and placed him as a finalist for two Audie Awards. He has acted in a number of productions, both off Broadway in New York and off Loop in Chicago. He graduated from Harvard and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He has won awards for his fiction and drama, worked as an editor with several book publishers, and taught literature and writing at Northwestern University. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed.