There are many various ways lead to mortality, some stem from diseases or accidents whilst

some die because of intentions. In actuality, each asset has its cutoff, as is life. Some said
passing is the most attractive thing on the planet, it happens to everyone. More often than not,
individuals will expect that second to come and imagine it as something loathsome, and Phil
Hammond has thought in other way, he believes that the most worth method for death is dying
with humour, therefore, he made a text accompainied with a strange title “How to die with
humour” which is such a hilarious, exaggerated, satirical and advisable essay and also to
commemorate Miles Kington (1941-2008). Philip James Hammond (born 1 January 1962) is a
physician, broadcaster, comedian and commentator on health issues in the United Kingdom. He
wrote this writing as his role model in life – and death – was the great humourist Miles Kington.
Here, he recollects how Kington dealt with his final diagnoses.

In “How to die with humour”, Phil tells the readers about the life of Miles as well as how
Hammond encountered with pantcreatic cancer. However, he still had a sense of relaxation
without being panic, Miles also pointed out the way he observed the world after having a
conclusion about the cancer, writing his last book with his best performance at the end of his
life. The essay can be said to be a story teller of a human’s activities, it helps us realize that die
is not so bad as we can look at it in a positive sight.

It is my contention that this text should be separated into three parts, each part is continuosly
divided into 2 or 3 small paragraphs. In the first part, the author indicates his admiration for Phil
Hammond, giving details the story of his role model’s life. The next part is describing is the last
book named “ How Shall I tell the Dog” which contains the conversations between Miles and his
friend, doctors and his general view to the language of cancer. The ending part Miles gave his
opinion about death and make joke in relation to it.

Heading to the first part of this essay, the author shows respects to Miles Kington, he
said :”Someone who motivates and inspires you, has a satisfied mind and leads a life that you
quite fancy?” He appreciates the friendship between Miles and his fellows, inspired by the
comedy career of Struck Off and Die. Miles illustrated Phil the way of playing pentaque and
gave him some secret about comedy. In his point of view, most of jokes have a punch line you
can see coming for miles, but the best joke take you somewhere completely unexpected. As
you can see, if you want to tell joke, you must find something special in the joke you are going
to tell, but to make everyone surprised, you had better search for the mystery lying in the
shaggy-dog story. One quote from Miles which draws attention to Phil and he is attentive to it is
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fuit salad”.
Why? Yet, several individuals believe these two word have the same meaning, but when having
a closer look, we can indicate the dissimilarity between them. Though they still create a
controversy, like there is another quote I’ve read :” Knowledge is acquired, wisdom is divine,
sometimes thay say do not let one overshadow the other but which one is the ultimate?” Maybe
that is the reason why Miles put his quote into his perspective.

Moving on to the second passage, Phil keeps describing about the story of Miles’s life, Miles
spent his first year in London, writing scripts with Terry Jones. Their output was prolific, but not
very successful and Terry finally dissolved the partnership, going to work with Michael Palin.
Miles found a job as a part-time gardener.Music, or, more specifically, Jazz, about which he was
passionate, provided him with his first professional writing break. In 1965, “The Times” (Miles
having lobbied the Arts Editor for months with sample reviews) employed him as their jazz
reviewer. He then set about realising a long-held ambition – to join the staff of Punch, the
humorous magazine famed for its cartoons and the quality of its writing. He bombarded them
with articles, till they finally gave in and allowed him to join the staff. In 1970 he became the
literary editor. Everthing was on the could nine to him till he found out he was having a pancretic
cancer, it tenderly ambushed him, driving his up the wall.

The last passage of the first part, in Phil’s idol’s last book – “How shall I tell the Dog”, Miles gave
his opinion from a person who was suffering from cancer “When you’ve got cancer, you notice
one or two little odd things which people don’t, one of which is the sudden proliferation round
the house of skewers and knitting needles and corkscrews, sometimes covered in blood,
sometimes not…because you’ve been trying to pierce new holes in your own belts” Perhaps he
is nonchalant about the fact that he is about to die and accept it easily, but what matters to him
is being tortured and suffering in the process. It seems to me that, to Miles, death is only the
byproduct of life and not the other way around. Miles remembered all his good old days, having
a perfect body and healthy life, but later it seemed to be impossible to think in a positive way.

The author is really into the story How shall I tell the Dog because it comprehends the form of a
letters from Miles to his friend and literary agent Gill Coleridge. The range of topics are massive
and erratic, this story symbolizes for the conception of Miles, Phil has a thought that Miles
observed the language of cancer. To prove this point even furthur,in the latter half of the
paragraph, the author mentioned about the most relatable business when it comes to death in
modern society, insurance agency. While the “foreign insurance agents speak of ‘ certain
possibilities’ and the ‘eventuality that ‘something might happen to you'’”. The English just simply
take all of that into consideration, but not for ensuring their own safety, rather they “make careful
calculation” to see how much the insurance company must pay when accidents occur. And
rather than looking back at the memories and achievement in their life, the thought that the
insurance agency will have to pay up will sweeten their last hours. This might anwer my
previously asked question: what aspect of death is so enjoyable to the English? The idea that
the English can utilize their death in such a way and even make money out of it may be the
reason why death is so tempting. I’ll make a bold guess and say this is why the author put it as
“the English look forward to it with gusto”. Understandably, this is a very bizarre or even
ridiculous take on the methods of facing death, but it shows how practical the English are. Death
is inevitable, so they might as well take advantage upon it to its fullest.

In concluding, in the document How to die the author has successfully demonstrated the
optimism of the English before death. A text about death, but the content is extremely humorous
comments showing the author's humor combined with excellent history of war knowledge. The
whole work is like a humane and meaningful joke. The author writes about death as something
very gentle and ordinary in life.