Book description
An international bestseller, this compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted dying who helps suffering patients explore and fulfill their end of life choices is "written with sensitivity, grace, and candor...not to be missed" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Dr. Stefanie Green has been forging new paths in the…
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Stefanie Green administered my mother’s medically assisted death, and among the stories in the book is my and my brother's farewell with her.
It wasn’t a long story – just a paragraph among chapters – and I read the book to find out more about my mother’s choice and the choice of the doctor who cared for her. I say “cared” because for my mother, a medically assisted death turned hopelessness about the end of her life into the happiness of having a choice in a situation in which she was otherwise helpless.
In her account of my mother’s last…
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