With only six weeks to live, Dr Jared Noel took on the most ambitious project of his short but significant life - to document what it was like to die, and to record his final reflections on where a young person facing the end of life could find hope, value, and meaning. The result is extraordinary: a deeply personal, and highly inspirational, story of purpose, courage and love to the very end. Jared was dying for almost six years, but his determination to make a difference in the lives of others drew international attention, first through The Boredom Blog, his transparent reflections on the life of a terminal cancer patient, and then through a crowd-funding campaign to buy chemotherapy drugs that would keep Jared alive long enough to see the birth of his daughter, Elise. The campaign raised $170,000 in just a few days . and Jared was able to share the first eight months of his baby girl's life. In the final days of his palliative care at home, Jared was determined to leave Elise a special legacy: an account of his inspirational story and a faithful picture of the dad she would not know. Battling ever-mounting fatigue and sickness, he met with writer David Wyn Williams daily to record this honest, emotional and profoundly insightful reflection on life, death, and everything in between.
Autorentext
Dr Jared Noel was a young doctor whose inspirational blog The Boredom Blog outlined six years of living with cancer. He died in October 2014, leaving his wife Hannah and baby daughter Elise.David Wyn Williams, PhD, is a writer and academic who is published as a journalist and as a theologian. His first book, This Little Piggy Stayed Home: Barlow, Chambers and the Mafia, was published in Australia in 1989. He lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. @davidwilliamsnz www.davidwwilliams.nz
Autorentext
Dr Jared Noel was a young doctor whose inspirational blog The Boredom Blog outlined six years of living with cancer. He died in October 2014, leaving his wife Hannah and baby daughter Elise.David Wyn Williams, PhD, is a writer and academic who is published as a journalist and as a theologian. His first book, This Little Piggy Stayed Home: Barlow, Chambers and the Mafia, was published in Australia in 1989. He lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. @davidwilliamsnz www.davidwwilliams.nz
Titel
Message to My Girl
Untertitel
A dying father's powerful legacy of hope
Autor
EAN
9781925267396
ISBN
978-1-925267-39-6
Format
ePUB
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
23.09.2015
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
3.75 MB
Anzahl Seiten
256
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch
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