The Inevitable, Katie Engelhart
The Inevitable, Katie Engelhart
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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


Synopsis

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.

About Katie Engelhart

Katie Engelhart is a reporter and documentary film producer from Toronto, now based in New York City. She is also a National Fellow at New America. Katie has worked as a correspondent for VICE News 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: Dispatches on the Right to Die is her first book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on March 01, 2021

Ever since my law degree I have been interested in the topic of euthanasia, assisted suicide and assisted dying; these are often used interchangeably but are in actuality different. Under Section I Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (formally the Convention for the Protectio......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on March 29, 2021

Mostly just my strong feelings… (view spoiler)[ This is an issue near and dear to my heart from the time I was about 12 years old. I get angry when people won’t be helped to die if that’s what they want, for any reason, not just for sure being within 6 months of death. I have zero tolerance for those who try to prev (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Linda on August 28, 2021

Much gratitude to Katie Engelhart for helping me to finalize my thoughts on the right to die” issue and for my decision to write an advanced care directive in the event that I ever become incapacitated and unable to make such a decision. These are serious moral and ethical, not to mention philosophi......more