Die Smiling (eBook)

A Memoir. The Sorrows and Joys of a Journey to Dignitas

Julie Casson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
366 Seiten
Haythorp Books (Verlag)
978-1-914487-25-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A widow's moving and often funny account of her late husband's Motor Neurone Disease
Deals with the experience of attending the Dignitas euthanasia clinic in Switzerland
Published as the UK and France consider introducing assisted dying laws

Autor

Julie Casson is a debut author. She is a mum, grandma and great-grandma and lives in Scarborough, North Yorkshire with her beloved miniature schnauzer Bodger. Julie spent twenty-three years working in Further Education. Starting out as a teacher, her career evolved into management. She holds an MA in management from the University of York. Her career ended unexpectedly in 2007, when her husband, Nigel, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Julie became Nigel's primary carer. Nigel's positivity, humour and pragmatism throughout his illness, and his determination to take control of his death, are the inspiration for this memoir. In 2011, she started a blog, posting light-hearted commentary on everyday existence and specific accounts of Nigel's experience, which she later developed into this book. She completed a creative writing course at the University of York. Julie is a supporter of the Motor Neurone Disease Association and member of Dignity in Dying. Her greatest wish is that Nigel's story contributes to changing the law on assisted dying in the UK.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2024
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: assisted death debate • assisted dying • assisted dying bill • assisted dying biography • Assisted Suicide • Caring for terminally ill memoir • dignitas clinic • Dignitas Clinic experiences • Dignitas clinic memoir • dignitas memoir • Dignitas Switzerland • Dignity in Dying • dying regrets • Esther Rantzen Dignitas • euthanasia • Euthenasia • family memoir dying • impact terminal diagnosis • memoir love and loss • mnd • MND caregiving • mnd disease • Motor neurone disease • Motor Neurone Disease care • muscle wasting disease • North Yorkshire terminally ill • Palliative Care • palliative care teminally ill • Riluzole • Scarborough • symptoms motor neurone disease • terminal illness • terminal illness caring • terminally ill bucket list • what is motor neurone disease • With the End in Mind
• ISBN-10: 1-914487-25-7 / 1914487257
• ISBN-13: 978-1-914487-25-5 / 9781914487255