Give As A GiftWritten By: Jack Goldstein
Narrated By: Jason Zenobia
Publisher: Andrews UK
Length: 01:28:49
Abridgement: Unabridged
Language: English
Release Date: 15-11-2018
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Death is the one thing about life that we can all be sure of. But exactly how we shuffle off this mortal coil is another story altogether. The boring among us may well gently drift off in our sleep, gratefully avoiding the fate of those whose inner flame is extinguished by disease or disaster.
If we’re lucky, the manner of our passing will warrant no more than a tick in some box somewhere, a ‘plus one’ to some statistician’s calculation. Yet some individuals’ deaths will occur in such a way that they are remembered long past the achievements made in their lives. From almost three millennia ago—when the politician Draco was suffocated by the gifts with which an appreciative audience showered him—to the present day, the fates have oh-so-generously woven their magic to ensure that certain members of the human race have met the choir invisible in ever more interesting circumstances.
This book examines a fair number of such cases, where the unexpected is the norm and the bizarre commonplace. From the humorous to the tragic and the gruesome, prepare yourself for a morbid trip through the kind of material coroners secretly share at their Christmas parties.
Welcome to 101 Amazing Unusual Deaths.
Roger McEwan was lucky to be made redundant from
his corporate career in 2001 when his son was one and his daughter
a small bump. He started a small consulting firm, just himself,
and this allowed him to truly achieve work-life balance, enabling
him to spend many valuable hours with his children as they grew.
His world lurched once again when his children were six and
eight and he found himself a single dad sharing care of his
children with his ex-wife. This book is the result of his journey
as a single dad raising his two wonderful, challenging children.
Roger has a PhD in management and still runs his own
consulting business. Has a part-time role with the local district
health board, is writing a management book with a colleague he met
during his studies, is collecting material for a sequel to this
book, and teaches on the Massey University MBA programme. Most
importantly he is a dad, father, parent, teacher and friend to his
two children now aged 17 and 15.
