Death Be Not Proud by John GuntherMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is my second time reading this moving, truly sad memoir of the death of the author's son from a glioma tumor. It appears the 17-year-old was a truly remarkable young man with a hopeful, positive outlook and talents including the gifts of a future, experimental chemist and scholastic ability to get him admitted to Harvard. One of his other passions was chess and I know recall I still try and apply his eleven precepts to the game (p 83 of my edition). In the long and ultimately futile course of treatment, detail are shared on mustard gas injections and Gerson Therapy, a dietary-based alternative cancer treatment. The chronology concludes with excerpts from a Johnny's journal and reflections in a chapter from each parent.
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