Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

Amber Turk lived with an inoperable brain tumour for 12 months before dying at the age of 27. During her final year she wrote a journal documenting her emotional her hopes, her despair, and finally her desire to leave the pain behind and embrace death. She wanted her writing to be available after her death so that people would know what a terminal illness is like "from the other side".