Living While Dying: My Cancer Journey

About this book

What if a terminal diagnosis was the beginning of the greatest adventure of your life?At 59, Thom Barrett was handed a death sentence. Stage IV prostate cancer. A body that had turned against him. A future that suddenly looked terrifyingly short.He chose Antarctica instead.Living While Dying is not a cancer memoir about surviving. It is a cancer memoir about truly, defiantly, beautifully living through eight years of diagnosis, remission, recurrence, and the kind of adventures most healthy people never dare attempt. From the frozen edges of Antarctica to a full circumnavigation of Australia to the sweeping landscapes of South America, Thom refused to let stage IV cancer write the ending of his story.This is the book that prostate cancer patients and their families have been searching for. Not another clinical guide. Not a how-to handbook. A real man's raw, honest, exhilarating account of choosing life every single day, when death was always in the room.Here is what Living While Dying will give you :A new definition of what living fully actually meansPermission to pursue adventure despite a terminal prognosisHope that is grounded in lived reality not empty positivityA companion who understands the specific landscape of prostate cancer from the insideThe most meaningful gift they could give to someone they love facing this diagnosisIf this book finds you on a hard day, in a waiting room, or lying awake at 3am, or staring at a future that suddenly looks different than you planned, know this: Thom Barrett sat in that same silence. He felt that same weight. And then he went to Antarctica.This is not a book about beating cancer. It is a book about refusing to let cancer beat life.Get your copy of Living While Dying today. Because whatever time you have and none of us know how much that is, deserves to be lived like this! Read more