To Die or Not to Die - Softcover

Everything on this planet dies sooner or later, yet it is how people die that intrigues us most, because we don't know how we'll make our exits, do we? The people in these eleven stories are facing death. Some go willingly, others put up a fight when old Charos beckons. And there are always the nasties, who like to give the Old Reaper a hand, finding brutal pleasure in filling his ferry to capacity. But killers can no more escape the end of life than the victims they push prematurely into eternity. There is always a balance - you live, you die, and Charos takes no sides, just bodies. It is how we deal with the imminent end that makes each case so different and so individual. If you believe in the Afterlife, then death is not so awful, or is it? That depends on where you're going.

"Perhaps it is only when we accept death into our lives that we can accept responsibility for the gift of life we have been given. Colette Ioannidou's stories give us, mostly, strong women almost overburdened by the pain of existence who manage, nevertheless, even when choosing their own deaths, to blaze triumphantly in life. The sea that bears everything away in these tales is the same sea that bears us up." Theo Dorgan, author, 'Sailing for Home' "I particularly liked 'Paid in Full'. It is atmospheric with a great sense of place and very well plotted." Ethna Viney, author, 'Dancing to Different Tunes: Sexuality and Its Misconceptions' and 'Ancient Wars: Sex and Sexuality' Death by Murder: "A dark and twisted tale of secrets, misunderstandings and blighted lives, with the sort of surprise twists you don't find in O. Henry." Frank McNally, Irish Times columnist