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style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eA new life after cancer recurrence\u003cbr\u003e The author of \"What is Life?\" cries out, \"I want to die gracefully.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yoko Sano, author of “The Cat Who Lived a Million Times” and “What Is Life?”\u003cbr\u003e She showed a chic attitude towards life and left a record of her life up until two years before she passed away after a relapse of cancer. \u003cbr\u003e\"What is Dying?\" depicts Yoko Sano humbly accepting death as a natural part of life, while upholding the belief that \"do not spare money or life.\"\u003cbr\u003e This attitude is fully reflected in the prose and dialogues that make up this book, as well as in the memoirs of author Natsuo Sekikawa.\u003cbr\u003e Yoko Sano consistently says in a detached voice, “I don’t care about dying.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e What is death?\u003cbr\u003e 11 Do not spare your money or your life.\u003cbr\u003e 28 Cowardice is the worst\u003cbr\u003e 40 Endless Fireworks\u003cbr\u003e 53 People with bad personalities don't know that they have bad personalities.\u003cbr\u003e 64 No one is immortal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 77 Even if I die and my world dies, don't make a fuss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Things I didn't know\u003cbr\u003e 122 I'm dying of pain\u003cbr\u003e 131 Curiosity is shallow\u003cbr\u003e 144 No one's name was attached to it. \u003cbr\u003e158 Cherry blossoms blooming next year\u003cbr\u003e 168 Everyone seems to be sliding in a certain direction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 179 About Yoko Sano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 197 Translator's Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate653\/MidCate004\/65236364(3).jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e People become life, and cancer becomes knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After learning that the original Japanese title of this book was \"Full of the Will to Die,\" a scene suddenly came to mind.\u003cbr\u003e In the Monastery of Tripis, known as the \"capital of silence,\" the only permitted phrase is \"Brothers, let us remember death.\"\u003cbr\u003e Why? In today's culture, death is always imminent, declared, or happens.\u003cbr\u003e However, the death that Yoko Sano persistently talks about after being diagnosed with cancer inevitably testifies to life like two sides of a coin.\u003cbr\u003e Just as extreme pain is proof of being alive, the will to die is also the most intense sight of life. \u003cbr\u003eThe irony of Steve Jobs, the most famous cancer patient of the 21st century, calling death “life’s greatest invention” should be understood this way.\u003cbr\u003e Do you know that when you try to quickly type 'person' and make a typo, it often ends up being 'life'?\u003cbr\u003e This book is like a thoughtful typo written by a strong grandmother who had cancer but did not quit smoking and wanted to die as a person, not as a patient, and who suddenly reached a point of 'knowledge' while writing about 'cancer'.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Baek Young-ok (novelist)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e I also believe that the most precious things cannot be bought with money.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e All the things are something.\u003cbr\u003e Money is all that matters.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A person with a bad mouth is worse than a gorilla or a cow.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It's okay to be poor.\u003cbr\u003e I want to die with dignity and pride.\u003cbr\u003e But I don't know what to do.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.52p\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If you live, you will just forget.\u003cbr\u003e The fact that I am dying.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.54p\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIf I were to be born again, I would want to be a 'stupid beauty'.\u003cbr\u003e A while ago, I looked at my face in the mirror and said, “You’ve managed to live with this face.\u003cbr\u003e When I said, “It’s both wonderful and admirable,” he felt so proud that he cried.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.56~57\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I can't do greetings.\u003cbr\u003e If you try to be polite, your mouth will rot.\u003cbr\u003e So, my compliments are sincere.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I learned everything from poverty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I didn't mind dying, but I thought several times a day that death was the best way to be free from this pain, but it still felt unfair.\u003cbr\u003e I felt wronged several times a day.\u003cbr\u003e I groaned in frustration.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I pride myself on being able to spend money well even when I don't have any.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e All the heavens and hells of this world are on the kotatsu.\u003cbr\u003e I also believe that the most precious things cannot be bought with money.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e All the things are something.\u003cbr\u003e Money is all that matters.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.48\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA person with a bad mouth is worse than a gorilla or a cow.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It's okay to be poor.\u003cbr\u003e I want to die with dignity and pride.\u003cbr\u003e But I don't know what to do.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.52p\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If you live, you will just forget.\u003cbr\u003e The fact that I am dying.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.54p\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If I were to be born again, I would want to be a 'stupid beauty'.\u003cbr\u003e A while ago, I looked at my face in the mirror and said, “You’ve managed to live with this face.\u003cbr\u003e When I said, “It’s both wonderful and admirable,” he felt so proud that he cried.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.56~57\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I can't do greetings.\u003cbr\u003e If you try to be polite, your mouth will rot.\u003cbr\u003e So, my compliments are sincere.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I learned everything from poverty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I didn't mind dying, but I thought several times a day that death was the best way to be free from this pain, but it still felt unfair.\u003cbr\u003e I felt wronged several times a day. \u003cbr\u003eI groaned in frustration.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I pride myself on being able to spend money well even when I don't have any.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e All the heavens and hells of this world are on the kotatsu.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.176\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e A new life after cancer recurrence\u003cbr\u003e The author of \"What is Life?\" cries out, \"I want to die gracefully.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yoko Sano, author of “The Cat Who Lived a Million Times” and “What Is Life?”\u003cbr\u003e She showed a chic attitude towards life and left a record of her life up until two years before she passed away after a relapse of cancer.\u003cbr\u003e \"What is Dying?\" depicts Yoko Sano humbly accepting death as a natural part of life, while upholding the belief that \"do not spare money or life.\"\u003cbr\u003e This attitude is fully reflected in the prose and dialogues that make up this book, as well as in the memoirs of author Natsuo Sekikawa.\u003cbr\u003e Yoko Sano consistently says in a detached voice, “I don’t care about dying.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe world won't be in trouble no matter who dies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So there's no need to make such a fuss about dying.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If I die, my world will die too, but the universe will not disappear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I wish you wouldn't make such a fuss.\u003cbr\u003e -Page 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tatsuo Hirai, director of the Neurology Clinic, says this attitude is “due to my profession as a writer, and the fact that I have a good grasp of questions like ‘What is life? What am I? What is death?’”\u003cbr\u003e However, even the meticulous Yoko Sano had one thing she couldn't do: pain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I don't mind dying, but I don't like being sick.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Being sick is scary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I don't mind drooling with a dazed head, but I just want to avoid pain.\u003cbr\u003e -Page 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eventually, she ends up paying a lot of money and going into hospice. \u003cbr\u003eThere, he meets people who, like him, have fled the world and its suffering, people who are sliding towards death day by day, and their families.\u003cbr\u003e In this book, unlike his previous work, \"What is Life?\", the author goes beyond the personal relationships between himself and his acquaintances to meet strangers and observe their demise up close.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It has disappeared.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In my little universe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I couldn't express it in words,\u003cbr\u003e That feeling is the realization that something precious is gone forever.\u003cbr\u003e It was a loneliness that made me realize that I had to accept it.\u003cbr\u003e A person I have never spoken to and who has no relationship with me,\u003cbr\u003e Now, there will never be a time when it will pass before me in a transparent and silent manner.\u003cbr\u003e -Pages 152-153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yoko Sano, admitted to a hospice, observes death from a somewhat objective distance.\u003cbr\u003e It is a perspective from a person (2.5 person) that is neither too far away nor too close to be heartbreaking. \u003cbr\u003eAt some point, she stopped whining and getting angry.\u003cbr\u003e I just feel lonely.\u003cbr\u003e In this moment, we see Sano Yoko's personal wish to \"die well\" expanded into a universal death preparation education.\u003cbr\u003e Furthermore, as the author expresses his sorrow for the disappearance of others, not his own, we also gain the realization that people only regain their humanity through others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A sharp and powerful voice\u003cbr\u003e A grumbling that becomes sharper at the end of life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As in the previous work, you can easily find Yoko Sano's signature quotes in \"What is Dying?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I, too, believe that the most precious things cannot be bought with money. (Page 40)\u003cbr\u003e Language is very important to humans.\u003cbr\u003e It could be said that language alone proves humanity. (p. 50)\u003cbr\u003e Each person is different.\u003cbr\u003e Yes, each person is different. (Page 55) \u003cbr\u003eI think people should die at home. (p. 70)\u003cbr\u003e Nature never fails to become a picture that you want to tear apart. (p. 151)\u003cbr\u003e You will know as time goes by without asking. (Page 174)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To a writer at the end of his life, even the monotony of daily life comes across as an unfamiliar image.\u003cbr\u003e In this book, Yoko Sano displays keen insight into conversations and trivial phenomena that can easily be overlooked.\u003cbr\u003e It is often a matter of frustration or irritation about one's situation, but it is also intertwined with questions about life that we have accepted indifferently.\u003cbr\u003e So, Sano Yoko's grumbling also serves to bring to light contradictions that are buried in everyday life to the point where we are no longer even aware of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Animals have strong, still eyes that can withstand solitude.\u003cbr\u003e But animals that use language have lost their solitary eyes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSuch eyes become tools for expressing all kinds of desires and twinkle greedily.\u003cbr\u003e We humans have become so fatefully.\u003cbr\u003e -Page 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There is no one who does not die\u003cbr\u003e But I'm alive until I die\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yoko Sano has been familiar with death since childhood.\u003cbr\u003e When she was three, she witnessed her 33-day-old brother die from a nosebleed, and when she was eight, she watched indifferently as her four-year-old brother, whom she had cared for like a son, was buried in an unclaimed grave.\u003cbr\u003e I didn't know what it was at the time.\u003cbr\u003e It was only when her older brother, who had been like a part of her body to her, died the following year that Yoko Sano began to feel the reality of death for the first time and cried.\u003cbr\u003e I felt “the greatest loss” of my life.\u003cbr\u003e After that, she became “a person who only cries when things break up.” She also became a person who “doesn’t know how to live until I die.” \u003cbr\u003eThe deaths I witnessed in my childhood made me constantly question the rest of my life.\u003cbr\u003e What kind of scenery did Sano Yoko discover anew when she faced her own inevitable death?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Even if I die, weeds will grow as if nothing happened.\u003cbr\u003e Little flowers will bloom, rain will fall, and the sun will shine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Every day a newborn baby is born and a ninety-four-year-old mummy dies in a nursing home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nevertheless, I want to die thinking that this world is beautiful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I, who am as dirty and poisonous as mud mixed with shit, think that way.\u003cbr\u003e -Page 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A person lives until he dies.\u003cbr\u003e -Page 175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this book, Yoko Sano never says that she wants to live.\u003cbr\u003e I don't even give you the advice to reflect on life self-sufficiently or to live without regrets.\u003cbr\u003e Since I'm alive until I die, I just want to live (and die) properly for the rest of my life. \u003cbr\u003eThis polite detachment.\u003cbr\u003e The generous embrace of one who has gained knowledge through the pain of cancer.\u003cbr\u003e In this way, in “What is Dying,” Yoko Sano expresses her admiration for life without reservation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - 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