On Their Own Terms: How One Woman’s Choice to Die Helped Me Understand My Father’s Suicide
Book by Laurie Loisel (2019)
A journalist’s memoir about two—which turn out to be three—self-deliverance choices. Her father, Paul Loisel, shot himself outside a Maine police station after informing the author and her siblings of his intention. Not long thereafter she was contacted by a local woman, Lee Hawkins, who, fearing the loss of her independence, planned to end her life by not eating or drinking.
Available from Amazon or Levellers Press: https://www.levellerspress.com/product/on-their-own-terms/
How to Die in Oregon
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right To Die
Book by Katie Engelhart (2021)
A veteran investigative journalist uses six cases studies to delve into the right to die debate. For those who wish to shape their end, it is a difficult road indeed. She concludes the introduction with, “Here we are, in the country that spends more per capita on healthcare than any other in the world, and people were begging for a veterinary solution.”
https://us.macmillan .com/books/9781250201461/theinevitable
Choosing to Live, Choosing to Die: The Complexities of Assisted Dying
Book by Nikki Tate and Belle Wuthrich (ill.) (2019)
This sensitive, straightforward introduction explores the issue from multiple nuanced perspectives — including legal, religious, philosophical, linguistic, ethical, and historical — encouraging readers to keep an open mind as they reach their own conclusions. Ignore that the book is for teens; it hits the important stuff and doesn’t expound for pages doing so.
