

The Inevitable
Dispatches on the Right to Die
Author: Katie Engelhart
Narrator: Katie Engelhart
Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 04/13/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, Medical, Social Science, Death & Dying
Synopsis
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.