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Eudora Honeysett has lived a full life, and witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age. At eighty-five, her end will be on her terms. A call to a clinic in Switzerland sets the plan in motion. Then she meets ten-year-old Rose Trewidney, a pint-sized rainbow of color and sparkling cheer. Eudora finds herself embarking on a series of adventures with Rose and their neighbor, the recently widowed Stanley. Eudora is reminded of her own childhood--...
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English
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The author of The Road Less Traveled, the bestselling and most influential book of psychiatric and spiritual instruction in modern times, now offers a deeply moving meditation on what euthanasia reveals about the status of the soul in our age. Its trenchant and sensitive treatment of the subject will define our humanity for generations to come.
Author
Series
Barsetshire novels volume 12
Publisher
Moyer Bell
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
vi, 477 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Series
Merciful Crow volume 1
Language
English
Description
Fie's Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin; when they're called to collect royal dead, she's hoping they'll find the payout of a lifetime. But Crown Prince Jasimir faked his death, and Fie's ready to cut his throat. He offers a wager that she can't refuse: protect him from a ruthless queen, and he'll protect the Crows when he reigns. Hawk warrior Tavin, Jas's bodyguard, magically assumed the prince's appearance and...
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Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Grace Quigley has come to the end of her rope and wants out. When she meets a sweet, neurotic hitman, Seymour Flint, she comes up with a brainstorm: The unlikely pair will provide a painless parting for seniors who have had enough of life's slings and arrows. As business booms, Grace and Seymour develop a warm, mother-son relationship, until mom begins to have ideas that could put Seymour in the clink for good.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"AAs much of the world's population grows older, the quest for a "good death," has become a significant issue. For many, the right to die often means the right to die with dignity. The Inevitable moves beyond margins of the law to the people who are meticulously planning their final hours--far from medical offices, legislative chambers, hospital ethics committees, and polite conversation--and the people who help them, loved ones or clandestine groups...
13) Kill me: a novel
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Series
Alan Gregory novels volume 14
Language
English
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“Kill Me is that rarest of creations—a thinking-person’s thriller. In this age of the same-old same-old-fiction, White’s novel stands dizzyingly above the pack. The concept is unique (and brilliant), the writing is sharp, observant, and wry (White’s trademark), and every page is filled with perfectly realized human emotion—about life, death, and family. Superb.”—New York Times bestselling...
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
294 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Jean is content-- for the most part-- with the small-town life she's built. But in watching her mother go through the final devastating stages of cancer, Jean realizes her true calling. She will take it upon herself to give each of her friends one final, perfect moment-- and then, one by one, kill them.
16) One true thing
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “hypnotically interesting” (The Washington Post Book World) novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Miller’s Valley
“[Anna Quindlen] writes passionately . . . painstakingly uncovering all the intensity, suspicion and primitive love that bonds mothers and daughters.”—The Boston Globe
Ellen...
“[Anna Quindlen] writes passionately . . . painstakingly uncovering all the intensity, suspicion and primitive love that bonds mothers and daughters.”—The Boston Globe
Ellen...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
עברית
Description
Tackling an extremely sensitive issue in a vibrant, humorous way, this is the story of Yehezkel and his wife Levana. Well into their 70s, they are living contented lives inside a Jerusalem retirement home. But they are shocked when their dear friend Max falls prey to an irreversible illness. Looking to escape a slow, painful death, Max asks Yehezkel for help to end his suffering.
Author
Series
Debating law volume 3
Publisher
Hart
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
x, 190 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Emily Jackson argues that we owe it to everyone in society to do all that we can to ensure that they experience a 'good death'. For a small minority of patients who experience intolerable and unrelievable suffering, this may mean helping them to have an assisted death. In a liberal society, where people's moral views differ, we should not force individuals to experience deaths they find intolerable. This is not an argument in favour of dying. On...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Four female mercenaries, known as the Boneless Mercies, are weary of roaming Vorseland. Ignored and forgotten until they are needed for mercy killings, they decide to seek glory by going after a legendary monster in this reimagining of Beowulf.
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