When I should be dead, I'm still living. I missed the sliding door in another movie, leaving this wonderful life long ago. Because statistically speaking I shouldn't have, I've had to learn how to live without knowing if there would be tomorrow like so many others. I was diagnosed with incurable colon cancer at the age of 35, and doctors gave me a less than 8% chance of surviving five years. More than five years later, living in the present and valuing each day as it comes is the only course I can take. So how do you turn a negative spiral in your head into a realistic but rebellious hope? How can you stop asking "why?" and realise that "why not me?" is just as good a question? You can learn how by reading How to Live When You Could Be Dead. It will cause you to reconsider your life as if there were no tomorrow and to live it as you see fit right now. It will teach you how to develop a positive outlook and, by doing so, encourage you to consider what you would be able to accomplish if you had the belief that you could achieve anything. When Deborah James' book How To Live When You Could Be Dead is purchased in the UK, Ebury, a division of Penguin Random House, will donate ?3 to the Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK. A charity with registration numbers in England and Wales (1089464), Scotland (SC041666), and the Isle of Man is Cancer Research UK (1103) and Jersey (247).