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A Chosen Death: The Dying Confront Assisted Suicide
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About A Chosen Death: The Dying Confront Assisted Suicide
Product Description Sensitively written narratives and poignant photographs tell the stories of five people who seriously considered suicide when they knew they were dying, describing emotional, spiritual, and intellectual issues each faced and illustrating benefits and dangers of legalized euthanasia. 20,000 first printing. From Publishers Weekly Shavelson, an emergency-room physician and photojournalist in Berkeley, Calif., advocates physician-assisted suicide as an option for people who want to end the agony of a prolonged illness-but only after all other options, including hospice care, have been explored. He describes how he helped a friend commit suicide to shorten her struggle with terminal brain cancer. He also tells of his involvement in other cases of euthanasia, either as passive observer or as adviser to people who chose to end their lives and to their troubled families. These include a gay circus trapeze perfomer afflicted with AIDS; a quadriplegic frustrated in his quest for romantic love; and mystery writer Mary Bowen Hall, a victim of metastatic breast cancer. Shavelson's graphic photographs of his subjects at various stages of their ordeals add an unusually immediate dimension to this sensitive, helpful guide. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review Abraham Verghese Author of My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town And Its People in the Age of Aids Lonny Shavelson's striking narrative and photographs teach us that the most important debate on assisted suicide doesn't take place in splashy courtroom trials or in the press; instead the debate occurs daily at the bedside. A Chosen Death places us there, with the families, with men and women caught between their desire to live and the need to end suffering. Though we may each walk away from A Chosen Death with our own opinion as to what we would want, no one can escape being transformed by this narrative. -- Review About the Author Lonny Shavelson is a writer, photojournalist, and emergency-room physician. He lives in Berkeley, California.
