Time to Go

In 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her.
88 years old, with an older and infirm husband, Susie wanted to avoid sliding into infantilised catatonia. The son immediately started taking notes and Time to Go is the result.
In turns a manual for those considering the benefits of assisted dying, a portrait of a mother son relationship, and a sympathetic description of old age, this book is a route map through the moral, legal, emotional, intellectual and practical maze that is the biggest issue facing the senior generations today: leaving life on their own terms.
During their conversations about when and how to make Susie's final exit, some of the difficulties of their fractious relationship mellowed and some even melted, as the reality of what they were planning brought them together.
Many elderly people, like Susie, have clearly stated that they wish to die in a manner and time of their choosing. But the church, the law, the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry stand in the way, wagging their fingers.
A change is coming for the rights of the elderly, the way it has come for the rights of women and gay people. Time to Go is a rallying call in this fight.
Life is too precious not to be lived properly. As with a job, a relationship or a party, you have to know when it's time to go.

In 2017, Susie Kennaway i-a cerut fiului ei Guy sa o omoare, in varsta de 88 de ani, cu un sot mai in varsta si infirm, Susie a vrut sa evite alunecarea in catatonie infantilizata. Fiul a inceput imediat sa ia notite si rezultatul este Time to Go. La randul sau, un manual pentru cei care iau in considerare beneficiile mortii asistate, un portret al unei relatii cu fiul mama si o descriere simpatica a batranetii, aceasta carte este o harta a traseului prin labirintul moral, legal, emotional, intelectual si practic, care este cea mai mare problema cu care se confrunta generatiile in varsta de astazi: parasirea vietii in propriile conditii. In timpul conversatiilor lor despre cand si cum sa faca iesirea finala a lui Susie, unele dintre dificultatile relatiei lor nefaste s-au inmuiat si unii chiar s-au topit, pe masura ce realitatea a ceea ce planificau i-a reunit.