![]() ![]() Dying is about the vulnerability and strength, courage and humility, anger and acceptance that it takes to live a good life and say goodbye to it in peace. She tells us why she would like to be able to choose the circumstances of her own death. And I am making dying bearable for myself. On why she decided to write the memoir, Taylor relates: I am making a shape for my death, so that I, and others, can see it clearly. She completed her memoir Dying in the space of a few weeks. ![]() This is a brief and clear-eyed account of what dying taught Cory: amid the tangle of her feelings, she reflects on the patterns of her life, and remembers the lives and deaths of her parents. Cory Taylor was an award-winning Australian writer who died from melanoma-related brain cancer at 61. With her illness no longer treatable, she began at the start of 2016 to write about her experiences and, in an extraordinary creative surge, wrote what would become Dying: A Memoir. This is a brief and clear-eyed account of what dying taught Cory: amid the tangle of her feelings, she reflects on t At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor was dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. With her illness no longer treatable, she began at the start of 2016 to write about her experiences and, in an extraordinary creative surge, wrote what would become Dying: A Memoir. At the time of her death, Australian writer Cory Taylor had been labouring to overcome and then simply live with the ravages of cancer, which had been diagnosed ten years earlier after a biopsy on a mole excised from the back of her knee came back positive as stage-four melanoma. At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor was dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. ![]()
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