Bad Hair Days

This inspirational book, Bad Hair Days by Pamela Bone, was very good. Pamela was a highly respected journalist for The Age, a Melbourne newspaper. When she returned from assignment in Africa she became very ill and was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, which is a terminal cancer. She discusses her attitude to her illness and also her feelings about death and dying. She tells about her opinions which were published in the newspaper and also her news story reports. She was in remission when she wrote the book, which was published in 2007. It is not a "poor me" story but she speaks frankly about our society's attitude to dying. She concludes her book with a "very simple and very profound quote": 'yes, you are going to die, but until you do, you are alive.' So that's what she did. She died in 2008, aged 68 and seems she had the death she had hoped for. See The Age story. 4/5