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It Always Ends
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Pub Date
Aug 28 2025
| Archive Date
Sep 22 2025
Description
When a 60-year-old businessman suffers a catastrophic stroke, leaving him totally paralysed and uncommunicative, his view that the world in which we live in is absurd is put to the test as he faces the prospect of death.
He considers but is not tempted to believe in a God. He dismisses the idea and, although stressed at the thought, feels that he faces nonexistence, convinced that he will return to the state he was in before his conception.
As his wife and children await his passing while he lies in hospital, we learn that his life has been complex in recent times, leaving the family facing compounded grief. He was not the man they thought they knew.
It Always Ends contrasts existential and religious views of living and dying.
When a 60-year-old businessman suffers a catastrophic stroke, leaving him totally paralysed and uncommunicative, his view that the world in which we live in is absurd is put to the test as he faces...
Description
When a 60-year-old businessman suffers a catastrophic stroke, leaving him totally paralysed and uncommunicative, his view that the world in which we live in is absurd is put to the test as he faces the prospect of death.
He considers but is not tempted to believe in a God. He dismisses the idea and, although stressed at the thought, feels that he faces nonexistence, convinced that he will return to the state he was in before his conception.
As his wife and children await his passing while he lies in hospital, we learn that his life has been complex in recent times, leaving the family facing compounded grief. He was not the man they thought they knew.
It Always Ends contrasts existential and religious views of living and dying.
A Note From the Publisher
Ted Dinan lives in Cork, having previously lived in London and New York. Married with three grownup children, his previous writings have been in the scientific field, where he currently works as a science consultant.
Ted Dinan lives in Cork, having previously lived in London and New York. Married with three grownup children, his previous writings have been in the scientific field, where he currently works as a...
A Note From the Publisher
Ted Dinan lives in Cork, having previously lived in London and New York. Married with three grownup children, his previous writings have been in the scientific field, where he currently works as a science consultant.
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Ebook |
| ISBN |
9781836289494 |
| PRICE |
£4.99 (GBP)
|
| PAGES |
264
|
Available on NetGalley
NetGalley Reader
(EPUB)
NetGalley Shelf App
(EPUB)
Send to Kindle (EPUB)
Send to Kobo (EPUB)
Download (EPUB)
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Reviewer 1491639
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this was quiet reflective type read. one that made me think about the characters within this book but also how so many must be going through similar. how we all might think at this time of life. both from the people in the bed and for those surrounding it. what do you do when you learn new things about people. you cant hide it but nor can you really confront it. does it leave so much unsaid and held in. for both family and the sufferer the wait, the questions, the unknown.
do you turn to faith. and what faith would it be? do you pray to God or do we simply just pray for something higher than ourselves. in times of great loss and great need what and who do you turn to. how do it make you feel, think, come together or fall apart.
i wasn't sure quite how i felt towards this book and im not even sure i can say why. but i do know i wanted to read on. it was weird just how much of a quiet time it felt to be had with it. and maybe that is the point for me.
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Reviewer 1491639
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this was quiet reflective type read. one that made me think about the characters within this book but also how so many must be going through similar. how we all might think at this time of life. both from the people in the bed and for those surrounding it. what do you do when you learn new things about people. you cant hide it but nor can you really confront it. does it leave so much unsaid and held in. for both family and the sufferer the wait, the questions, the unknown.
do you turn to faith. and what faith would it be? do you pray to God or do we simply just pray for something higher than ourselves. in times of great loss and great need what and who do you turn to. how do it make you feel, think, come together or fall apart.
i wasn't sure quite how i felt towards this book and im not even sure i can say why. but i do know i wanted to read on. it was weird just how much of a quiet time it felt to be had with it. and maybe that is the point for me.
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