Last Wish
In this book TV journalist Rollin chronicles her mother's two-and-a-half year illness with ovarian cancer, from the diagnosis to her decision to end her unrelenting pain and nausea through suicide. The details of Rollin's role in helping to carry out her mother's last wish by providing information, support, and the means necessary to act upon the decision are widely known through prepublication media coverage. As in her earlier book, First You Cry (1976), about her own breast cancer and mastectomy, Rollin's crisp reportorial writing contrasts sharply with the painfully personal and highly controversial subject matter. Because of the publicity surrounding its release and the current interest in euthanasia, Last Wish is sure to be requested often. BOMC featured alternate. Karen McNally Bensing, Metropolitan General Hospital Lib., ClevelandCopyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.