[ONLINE] – Katie Engelhart, The Inevitable
Dispatches on the Right to Die
- Virtual
- 12PM 鈥 1PM EDT
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To hear more about The Inevitable, we recommend you listen to the interview between Katie Engelhart and Terry Gross on NPR鈥檚 Fresh Air.
The Inevitable by Katie Engelhart is a riveting, incisive, and wide-ranging book about the Right to Die movement, and the doctors, patients, and activists at the heart of this increasingly urgent issue.
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 U.S.; an Australian named Philip Nitschke who lost his medical license for teaching people how to end their lives painlessly and peacefully at 鈥淒IY Death鈥 workshops. The other four chapters belong to people who said they wanted to die because they were suffering unbearably鈥攐f old age, chronic illness, dementia, and mental anguish鈥攁nd 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 readers to ordinary people who are fighting to find dignity and authenticity in the final hours of their lives.
Join the 麻豆果冻传媒 Fellows Program for a conversation about the right to die with Katie Engelhart and 麻豆果冻传媒 CEO, Anne-Marie Slaughter.
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Speakers:
Katie Engelhart,
2018 Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow, 麻豆果冻传媒
Author, The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
Anne-Marie Slaughter,
CEO, 麻豆果冻传媒
Copies of The Inevitable are available for purchase through our bookselling partner Solid State Books.