“Being
dead was no great fear of hers, but being compelled
to live was killing her,” writes author Marianne Brooker of her mother, Jane, nine years after she was diagnosed with a primary progressive form of multiple sclerosis.
With no remission or cure on the cards, only more deterioration, Brooker worried that her mother would do something drastic. “‘I try hard to live a good life,’ my mum printed on a T-shirt, ‘I’m equally determined to die a good death,’” Brooker reveals in her urgent, powerful book, Intervals, which explores how her mother lived up to that philosophy.
Lacking either the funds or the desire to travel to Switzerland, where assisted dying is an expensive possibility, Jane’s options were limited. “I often wondered whether she’d ask me for assistance, how I’d respond and what the consequences might be,” confesses Brooker, knowing that encouraging or assisting the suicide or attempted suicide of another person is illegal in England and Wales.
Leggete l'articolo completo e molti altri in questo numero di
Prospect Magazine
Opzioni di acquisto di seguito
Se il problema è vostro,
Accesso per leggere subito l'articolo completo.
Singolo numero digitale
May 24
 
Questo numero e altri numeri arretrati non sono inclusi in un nuovo
abbonamento. Gli abbonamenti comprendono l'ultimo numero regolare e i nuovi numeri pubblicati durante l'abbonamento. Prospect Magazine