Wild and precious life
By: Deborah Ziegler
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs; Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9781410495129
Subjects: Cancer; Right to die; Assisted suicide; Brain; Patients; Mothers and daughters; Large type books; Biography
Description: "Written by Deborah Ziegler, the mother of Brittany Maynard--a twenty-nine-year-old woman with a terminal brain tumor--this touching and beautiful memoir captures and celebrates her daughter's spirit and the mostly untold story of Brittany's last year of life as she chose her right to die with dignity, a journey that inspired millions."--Amazon.com
Table of contents: title: Part one: Catastrophe. Foreboding ; Bad news ; Willful child ; Not on the same page ; The two of us ; Promises ; Sweet Pea ; Craniotomy; title: Part two: Renunciation. Denial ; Middle years ; Recovery ; High school hell ; Bad mother ; Spreading wings ; It can always get worse; title: Part three: Epiphany. First love ; No cake for you ; Berkeley girl ; Living in the moment in Alaska ; Changing her mind (a woman's prerogative) ; Making a nest to die in ; Playing house ; Love you hate you ; Free bird ; Pre-grief is a nasty bitch ; Mountain climbing and a wedding ; Twenty-nine years ; Married lady ; I want her back ; Dust to dust; title: Epilogue: Machu Picchu.