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1) Mercy
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die - until a motorcycle accident leaves her fianc,̌ Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. He begs to die, but Julie sees hope in a life together. With the help of an organization that opposes physician-assisted suicide, Julie has Sam coming around to her point of view when he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack. An autopsy reveals that Sam died of an unusual heart defect, one seen only...
Author
Publisher
Hemlock Society
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book "is intended to be read by a mature adult who is suffering from a terminal illness and is considering the option of rational suicide if and when suffering becomes unbearable"--Back jacket.
Author
Series
Alex Delaware volume 14
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Eldon Mate, a passionate advocate of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, is found dead, murdered by one of his own death machines, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis and his friend Dr. Alex Delaware are on the case
10) Mercy: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die - until a motorcycle accident leaves her fianceþ, Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. He begs to die, but Julie sees hope in a life together. With the help of an organization that opposes physician-assisted suicide, Julie has Sam coming around to her point of view when he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack. An autopsy reveals that Sam died of an unusual heart defect, one seen only...
11) Exit
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Felix Pink is retired. Widowed for more than a decade, a painfully literal thinker, he has led a life of routine and is, not unhappily, waiting to die a hopefully boring death. He occupies himself volunteering as an Exiteer--someone who sits with terminally ill people as they die by suicide, assisting with logistics and lending moral support, then removing the evidence so that family and friends are not implicated in the death. When Felix lets himself...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world--all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At eighty-five, she isn't going to leave things to chance. Her end will be on her terms. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland, a plan is set in motion. Then she meets ten-year-old Rose Trewidney, a whirling, pint-sized rainbow of color and sparkling cheer. All Eudora wants is to be left alone...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer’s disease. Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lifelong Books, Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The knowledge provided in this book is both comforting and powerful. Patients who know their right to refuse treatment and the legal ways to bring about death if pain or distress cannot be alleviated will be spared the frightening helplessness that can rob their last days of meaning and connection. Drs. Wanzer and Glenmullen do not shy from controversy. They make clear what patients should expect of their doctors, including the right to enough pain...
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Millions of people are affected by the suicide or attempted suicide of a loved one every year. Eric Marcus offers honest, straightforward answers to all of the haunting questions that plague those who are left behind. Without moral judgment, Why Suicide? answers the questions readers have about this complex and painful issue.
19) The right to die
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A series of controversial essays that debate issues related to a person's right to die including such cases as Karen Ann Quinlan in 1976, Terri Schiavo in 2005, and the trial of Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
20) The right to die
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Argues both sides of the debate on assisted suicide and euthanasia.