{"product_id":"books-anyone-for-heaven-by-john-blanchard","title":"Anyone for Heaven?","description":"As a friend of mine often reminds people, 'We are not here to stay; we are here to go.' I am writing these words in a consultant's waiting room in a London hospital. Some of the other patients are showing signs of great physical distress, moving reminders that the whole world is a hospital in which everyone is a terminal patient. The South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first human heart transplant operation in 1967 and the first double-heart transplant in 1974. Later in life he said, 'At 79, people ask me, Where do you go from here? I say to them, I'm on the waiting list. I don't exactly know where I am on that, or where I'm going. But I'm on it.' So are you  Even as you read these words you are fighting a losing battle with death, whatever your age or present state of health. What will happen to you when death wins? An ideal booklet to give away for outreach purposes.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53773784187153,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780852348277.jpg?v=1783980437","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-anyone-for-heaven-by-john-blanchard","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}