Suggested reading: All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews, a fictional chronicling of the real life struggle and eventual and death by suicide of her sister after a lifetime of crippling depression. After years of begging her family members to support her in a trip to Switzerland where she could have a medically supported death (this was re…
Suggested reading: All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews, a fictional chronicling of the real life struggle and eventual and death by suicide of her sister after a lifetime of crippling depression. After years of begging her family members to support her in a trip to Switzerland where she could have a medically supported death (this was refused), she ended her life by lying down on the railway tracks in Winnipeg.
Keeping someone alive against their will is not always the kindest or the most ethical choice.
*Edited to add: the book is beautifully written and laugh out loud funny in places. POI - Toews is also the author of the brilliant “Women Talking”, adapted for the screen last year.
Suggested reading: All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews, a fictional chronicling of the real life struggle and eventual and death by suicide of her sister after a lifetime of crippling depression. After years of begging her family members to support her in a trip to Switzerland where she could have a medically supported death (this was refused), she ended her life by lying down on the railway tracks in Winnipeg.
Keeping someone alive against their will is not always the kindest or the most ethical choice.
*Edited to add: the book is beautifully written and laugh out loud funny in places. POI - Toews is also the author of the brilliant “Women Talking”, adapted for the screen last year.