Death Need Not Be Fatal

 Death Need Not Be Fatal by Malachy McCourt & Brian McDonald 272 pp.

By the age of 85, the consummate Irishman, Malachy McCourt had lived the fullest life imaginable. He survived a childhood of poverty and alcoholic parents, owned more than one pub, acted in movies and soap operas, was a gold smuggler, a talk radio personality, a best-selling author, a political activist, and one time candidate for Governor of New York. In this book he faces death. While not in imminent danger of death, at his age he tackles much about the process of growing old with reminiscences, tales of his family, their tragedies and successes. As the last survivor of seven children, he continues to live life to the fullest of his abilities with the joy and foibles growing old brings.