Excitement While Dying - 9781514450987

In essence, this novel challenges the reader's conceptual perception of "the here and there." Upon unexpectedly being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and "sentenced" to die in three months, the protagonist makes a rare commitment. Instead of lamenting and crying for his "bad fortune," he decides to search for "credible" answers to fundamental questions and anxieties when facing death--from the accuracy of the medical diagnosis to where he will go after death, to which documents to prepare for his family, and how to get spiritually ready to die. In his three months of waiting to die, he had a visit to a cemetery at midnight, an insight on domestic violence when he accidentally meets a woman, his modern interpretation of concepts such as euthanasia and pedophilia, and he defied the usual medical warning to patients in losing their desire for intimacy when diagnosed with terminal cancer. A reader, whether healthy or in a situation similar to the protagonist's, may identify with one or two of the causes of his anguish, while another may embrace all of the above. A few samples are as follows: * Who is dying? The "me" I created and know or the "me" created by some supreme entity? * I cannot be prostrated. I cannot accept to be dead until after I have died. * Ubi sunt? Where are they, those who were before us? * Feeling loneliness becomes pleasant when shared with someone. * "Assisted suicide" is an insult to the patient's personal integrity. Say "last therapy." * I am dying; thus, dying is not my main concern but rather whether I am convinced of being ready to die. * Money is the number one cause of corruption, but I see that the United States honors it by printing the motto "In God we trust" on all dollar bills. * We die today in ways quite different from how we used to die some decades ago.

• | Author: Santiago Vilas
• | Publisher: Xlibris
• | Publication Date: Feb 05, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 116 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1514450984
• | ISBN-13: 9781514450987