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pickBrooker‘s mother was diagnosed with a rapidly progressive form of MS at age 40 and decided at 49 to stop eating and drinking as there‘s no assisted dying legal in England. Here, she recounts her mother‘s life and death while exploring the health care system as well as other literary works on death and dying. This is a powerful, short book that I hope gets more widely read.
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3d
BookmarkTavern What a sweet baby! 💖 3d
batsy Haven't heard of this one before; thanks for bringing it to my attention. Sounds really good, if difficult. 2d
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squirrelbrain Perfect review! 2d
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain Did you find the absence of her sister in their mother‘s dying days odd at all? She is mentioned so rarely in the book that I found it a bit strange. It may simply have been to protect her privacy, but it felt like more than that to me. 1d
squirrelbrain Yes, it‘s a while since I read it so I can‘t remember specifics but it felt like there was an undercurrent of something there. I felt like the sister didn‘t get on with either the author or the mother. 1d
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain Yeah, I thought it was either that or that the sister vehemently disagreed with their mother‘s choice and absented herself from the situation. I was so jarred when she initially mentioned the sister, since it was quite a way into the book and felt so abrupt. 15h
