What “On the Beach” Taught Me About How to Approach Death

What if you knew death was coming slowly and unstoppably at you? How would you meet your end?

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I had first heard of On the Beach by Nevil Shute when I was in high school. Those days, the Berlin Wall was falling, diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States were warming, and the world seemed to…