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  • The Last Waltz: Love, Death & Betrayal

    by Sean Davison ...
    The Last Waltz: Love, Death & Betrayal by Sean Davison, is an enthralling new memoir that tells the heartbreaking story of what happens when patients who are suffering do not have the option of assisted death. The Last Waltz is the true story of an extraordinary love between a terminally-ill mother and son, and how their informed decisions lead to unforeseen consequences: A sister betrays her ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Waltz

    Love, Death & Betrayal

    by Sean Davison ...
      The Last Waltz, written by Sean Davison and edited by Elaine Feuer,  is the true story of an extraordinary love between a terminally-ill mother and son, and how their informed decisions lead to unforeseen consequences: A sister betrays her brother; a son is charged with murder; Archbishop Desmond Tutu requests bail; igniting a public debate about voluntary euthanasia and the right to die.   ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Before We Say Goodbye

    by Sean Davison ...
    Eighty-four years old and terminally ill with cancer, psychiatrist Pat Ferguson wants nothing more than for her life, which no longer brings her joy, to be over. But when her ailing body refuses to let go, she asks her son Sean to do the unthinkable: to help her to die. Before We Say Goodbye is Sean Davison's personal account of the months he spent with his mother before her death. Written as a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • After We Said Goodbye

    by Sean Davison ...
    Sean Davison made headlines when he was arrested in New Zealand for matricide. The story that emerged - how he helped his ailing mother to die - is the subject of his affecting book, Before We Say Goodbye. This second book, After We Said Goodbye, takes up the story from there: his arrest, trial and sentencing and the dramatic events that followed after this softspoken, unassuming man took the most ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Changing the Way We Die

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  • Every Third Thought

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  • The Good Death

    An Exploration of Dying in America

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    Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States.When Ann Neumann’s father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She became his full-time caregiver—cooking, cleaning, and administering medications. When her father died, ... Read more

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