The Last Goodnights: Assisting My Parents with Their Suicides (A Memoir) By John West Counterpoint, 2009; 272 pp.; $25.00 (cloth) In The Last Goodnights, John West, at the time a Seattle-based lawyer, recounts how he assisted the suicide of both his parents ten years ago. West’s father, Jolly, was a world-renowned psychiatrist at UCLA, and […]
Would You Help Your Parents End Their Lives?
Damien Keown’s book review is a vital discussion: where and how assisted suicide, compassion, and the end of suffering might interrelate.