Content warning: This episode discusses suicide and death. Reporter Katie Engelhart discusses her compassionate and thoughtful new book The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die with author Larissa MacFarquhar (author of Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help). Their discussion eschews judgement while conveying all sides of the assisted suicide movement, including the state of healthcare in the US, disability rights, mental disorders, and dementia, as well as the journalistic ethics of writing about death and dying. (Recorded March 15, 2021)
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