Review: Thoughtful and entertaining
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2012
Dealing with testy moral issues like assisted dying and euthanasia is never easy - but the story weaves these together with compelling arguments for and against in the guise of a tale that begins with a Grandmother's letter to her dropout net-surfing journalist-wannabe grandson and pits him with (initially) and then against his new romance; a human rights activist who turns out to be the very kind of person that the inventors of the Death Trip want to be rid off.Dealing with how society sees the burden of care being paid for and dealt with - our main character Chuck is torn between blowing the story of the big evil Pharmaceutical Company that wants to euthanise the undesirables and prove the activist right, or believe the softly insidious entreaties of the idea behind the science and the advances of the owner's daughter, with whom he has a torrid affair.A good story that walks the line between the issues well but does have an almost deliberately rushed ending, as if a Sequel was the obvious answer - I would still definitely recommend the Author.