This Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week is a heartfelt blast from the past. We spend our time chatting with Dakshana Bascaramurty, journalist and author of This Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man - a book all about the life and death of our dear friend and OG Sickboy alum Layton Reid. The gang reminisces on his final years as he prepared his family & himself for his death from cancer. This is a special one.

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0:00.0	I'm Lisa Yuso, a digital producer at Ideas, the podcast that likes to feed your curiosity.
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0:39.9	This is a CBC podcast.
0:43.0	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.
0:47.0	This week's guest is Dachshana.
0:49.1	She's the author of the book This Is Not the End of Me,
0:52.0	a book about past Sick Boy guest and dear friend, Leighton Reed.
0:56.5	Let's talk about it.
1:02.2	Here we are.
1:07.6	We're going to dive into this conversation, which I had to put a pin in it because it started
1:12.7	before the recording even started.
1:18.4	Daxana, first of all, so nice to meet you.
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