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The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
Written by Katie Engelhart
Narrated by Katie Engelhart
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More states and countries are passing right-to-die laws that allow the sick and suffering to end their lives at pre-planned moments, with the help of physicians. But even where these laws exist, they leave many people behind. The Inevitable moves beyond margins of the law to the people who are meticulously planning their final hours. It also shines a light on the people who help them: loved ones and, sometimes, clandestine groups on the Internet that together form the "euthanasia underground."
Katie Engelhart, a veteran journalist, focuses on six people representing different aspects of the right to die debate. Two are doctors: a California physician who runs a boutique assisted death clinic and has written more lethal prescriptions than anyone else in the US, and an Australian named Philip Nitschke who lost his medical license for teaching people how to end their lives painlessly and peacefully at "DIY Death" workshops. The other four chapters belong to people who said they wanted to die because they were suffering unbearably and saw suicide as their only option.
Spanning North America, Europe, and Australia, The Inevitable offers a deeply reported and fearless look at a morally tangled subject. It introduces listeners to ordinary people who are fighting to find dignity and authenticity in the final hours of their lives.
Katie Engelhart, a veteran journalist, focuses on six people representing different aspects of the right to die debate. Two are doctors: a California physician who runs a boutique assisted death clinic and has written more lethal prescriptions than anyone else in the US, and an Australian named Philip Nitschke who lost his medical license for teaching people how to end their lives painlessly and peacefully at "DIY Death" workshops. The other four chapters belong to people who said they wanted to die because they were suffering unbearably and saw suicide as their only option.
Spanning North America, Europe, and Australia, The Inevitable offers a deeply reported and fearless look at a morally tangled subject. It introduces listeners to ordinary people who are fighting to find dignity and authenticity in the final hours of their lives.
Author
Katie Engelhart
KATIE ENGELHART is a reporter and documentary film producer from Toronto and based in New York City. She is also a National Fellow at New America. Engelhart has worked as a correspondent for VICE News, based in London, and NBC News, in New York. Her writing has appeared far and wide. Formerly, she was a graduate student of history and philosophy at Oxford University. The Inevitable is her first book.
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