Daniel Hallock (b. 1960), a former ROTC scholarship recipient and graduate of Cornell University, did active duty in the US Navy and Marines and worked for a major defense contractor in the aerospace industry before becoming a Christian pacifist and member of the Bruderhof community. He is the author of two acclaimed volumes of war stories, Hell, Healing, and Resistance, and Bloody Hell, as well as a chronicle of a close friend’s last year, Six Months to Live: Learning from a Young Man with Cancer. Hallock lives with his wife and three children in Kent, England, where he teaches high school.
Secularists often ask why the good die young, and sometimes very young. Daniel Hallock’s Six Months to Live: Learning from a Young Man with Cancer is a good book to give those facing a death sentence.
Marvin Olasky, WORLD Magazine
A little book, but a grand witness. Matt’s story reminds us that though dying is a gritty and painful process, death does not have the final word.
Gerald L. Sittser, author, A Grace Disguised
The text features long quotations from interviews with and diaries of those closest to Gauger among them his wife, parents, brother and doctor and in doing so paints the emotional, spiritual and physical landscape within which this drama unfolded. Hallock admirably avoids hagiography, as do Gauger's loved ones, and instead reveals the ennobling effect dying had on Gauger.
Publisher's Weekly
An extraordinary account – simple and profound. Matt’s struggle is one we will all eventually have to go through.
Francis S. MacNutt, author, Healing
Deep, fascinating, theologically rich…
Christianity Today
Powerful…It is rare to be invited on such and intimate journey.