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Simon Boas

Aid worker; executive director of Jersey Overseas Aid

United Kingdom · 1977–2024

British aid worker who spent his career with development charities and the United Nations, including three years running a UN office in Gaza, and his last eight years running Jersey's overseas aid agency. Diagnosed with terminal throat cancer at forty-six, he wrote about dying for the Jersey Evening Post and in A Beginner's Guide to Dying, published after his death.

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Question How would you like to die? Death & what remains read 42 other answers →
My pain is under control and I'm terribly happy - it sounds weird to say, but I'm as happy as I've ever been in my life. I used to think I'd rather be hit by the proverbial bus, but having a couple of months knowing this is coming has really helped me both do the boring 'death-min', but also get my thoughts and prepare myself, and feel so accepting of what's to come. It's been such a great bonus, actually.

Recorded Emma Barnett, BBC Radio 4, Today, as published by BBC News, 4 July 2024 source ↗

Question What would you like to be remembered for? Death & what remains read 62 other answers →
All our lives are little books - but they're not someone else's complete book. You're a chapter or a page or a footnote in someone else's life and they are going to keep writing beautiful chapters when you are gone. And those green shoots can grow around grief and put it in perspective. I hope people will think, "I'm glad I read that - Simon's story". And just because it's over, doesn't mean it's gone.

Recorded Emma Barnett, BBC Radio 4, Today, as published by BBC News, 4 July 2024 source ↗

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