{"product_id":"time-to-go-paperback","title":"Time to Go - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGuy Kennaway\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e88 years old, with an older and infirm husband, Susie wanted to avoid sliding into infantilised catatonia. The son immediately started taking notes and Time to Go is the result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 book 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring their conversations about when and how to make Susie's final exit, some of the difficulties of their fractious relationship mellowed and some even melted, as the reality of what they were planning brought them together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuy Kennaway lives for pleasure, producing books only when all else has failed. In all of Kennaway's work he likes to find downtrodden minorities under severe pressure and then make fun of them. He is best known for \u003ci\u003eOne People\u003c\/i\u003e about a Jamaican village threatened my mass US tourism, and \u003ci\u003eBird Brain\u003c\/i\u003e about a community of optimistic pheasants. He has written for magazines and newspapers, as well as many film scripts and TV adaptations, none of which have been made. Not surprisingly he lives alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 7.72 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41814848307335,"sku":"9781912914135","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/09073c592544ff052c4bcb4635a7edad.webp?v=1734085508","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/time-to-go-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}