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Time to Go

By: Guy Kennaway
Narrated by: Alex Jennings,Patience Tomlinson
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Summary

Some things in life are too serious to joke about. Assisted dying is not one of them.

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. Her 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 audiobook 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 others 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.

©2019 Guy Kennaway (P)2019 Creative Content and Mensch Publishing

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Brilliant read/listen

A warming look at a tough subject, written (and read) with great humour and humanity. A call to arms for anyone who believes that our approach to death needs a huge overhaul. This doesn't have a to a taboo subject that is whispered about - we should be actively engaging and moving forward towards a way to ensure personal choice on the timing of our final demise.

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A gently humorous look at ageing and death

I found myself chuckling throughout this book but it also gave the more poignant moments that many of us have with ageing parents and in ageing ourselves. Much I could relate to with an 83yo mother, although Guys mum feels like a force to be reckoned with.
But in watching my mum age it has made me consider much about going into old age myself and how I hope I can be, should my body both mentally and physically allow me. My daughters better watch out!

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