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In 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her. 88 years old with an older and infirm husband Susie wanted to avoid sliding into infantilised catatonia. The son immediately started taking notes and Time to Go is the result. In turns a manual for those considering the benefits of assisted dying a portrait of a mother son relationship and a sympathetic description of old age this book is a route map through the moral legal emotional intellectual and practical maze that is the biggest issue facing the senior generations today: leaving life on their own terms. During their conversations about when and how to make Susie's final exit some of the difficulties of their fractious relationship mellowed and some even melted as the reality of what they were planning brought them together. Many elderly people like Susie have clearly stated that they wish to die in a manner and time of their choosing. But the church the law the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry stand in the way wagging their fingers. A change is coming for the rights of the elderly the way it has come for the rights of women and gay people. Time to Go is a rallying call in this fight. Life is too precious not to be lived properly. As with a job a relationship or a party you have to know when it's time to go.
Features
Published Date:
07/02/2019
ISBN:
9781912914005
Author:
Guy Kennaway
Publisher:
Mensch Publishing
Format:
Hardback
Dimensions:
135 mm x 216 mm
Pages:
272
Language:
English