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What a beautifully written---and important--book! I thought her style of writing was perfect: it happily and vividly described her beloved mother's life, her marriage and career and business smarts, revealing a wonderfully stong, giving and vivacious woman, all while chronicalling the anguish of watching her mother's wrenching and painful experience with ovarian cancer. Every ounce of pain, despair and heartbreak shines through.
However, I especially appreciated the subject of this book--allowing a person to chose when to die. To be able to determine for onesself when enough is enough, when (because of illness and futile "treatment"), all that's left is just the awful lingering, to be able to end your own life on your own terms instead of continuing to suffer. Having watched both of my own parents suffer in their own last months of life, I completely identified with this daughter's decision to help her mother as she could. This is a five star book in both style and substance.
***** Five stars!
However, I especially appreciated the subject of this book--allowing a person to chose when to die. To be able to determine for onesself when enough is enough, when (because of illness and futile "treatment"), all that's left is just the awful lingering, to be able to end your own life on your own terms instead of continuing to suffer. Having watched both of my own parents suffer in their own last months of life, I completely identified with this daughter's decision to help her mother as she could. This is a five star book in both style and substance.
***** Five stars!
