"If I knew that I could die, I would live. "I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that will not be for quite some time to come, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds," he said in a lecture in 2010.
Pratchett had become a high-profile campaigner for the legalisation of assisted death. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare, as well as mythology, folklore and fairy. The books frequently parody or take inspiration from J. He had continued to write, completing his last book, a new Discworld novel, in the summer of 2014 before succumbing to the final stages of the disease. The series began in 1983 with The Colour of Magic and continued until the final novel The Shepherd's Crown was published in 2015, following Pratchett's death. The author, who sold tens of millions of books worldwide, was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), a progressive degenerative condition, in 2007. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. The first novel in the hilarious and irreverent Discworld series from New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett. He did so brilliantly, with great skill, enormous humour and constant invention," he said.ĪT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. "As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirise this world. "In over 70 books, Terry enriched the planet like few before him," said Larry Finlay, managing director at Transworld, a division of Penguin Random House. Pratchett died at home surrounded by his family with his cat sleeping on his bed, Transworld Publishers said. LONDON - Terry Pratchett, the British author of the popular "Discworld" series of fantasy novels, has died of a form of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 66, his publishing house said on Thursday.
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