THE GOOD DEATH
Book ID/图书代码： 06002015B84786
English Summary/英文概要： The Good Death is a clarion call to boomers, many of whom are confronting their own mortality, inviting them to initiate a national debate about our ultimate and universal experience: death. Choice about how we die is as pressing today as abortion was in the 1970s and 1980s. It is the final campaign for a generation which fought for reproductive rights, sexual equality and lobbied for protections against racial and religious discrimination.
Canada is a much more diverse country than it was when the abortion law was declared unconstitutional in 1988, but there are many legal, moral and emotional similarities in the pro-choice and right to die campaigns. Henry Morgentaler, the doctor who spearheaded the pro-choice movement, advocated for the right to die at the end of his own life. So did Doris Anderson, the feisty feminist editor of Chatelaine magazine, and Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique.
While feminism was a driver in the pro-choice movement, aging boomers (many of them feminists) are a force in the right to die movement. They have watched their parents struggle with dementia and metastasized cancers, enduring painful and futile treatments, and they are determined to avoid that fate. Having influenced so many other lifestyle choices, they want to control the ultimate decision: the manner of their own deaths.
They are part of a growing number of people whose stories are being shared in a grassroots surge to challenge the law against assisted suicide. It’s a movement that pits compassion against orthodoxy, the right to die against unwavering reverence for life and secularism against religious dogma and cultural traditions. Modern death is a wrenching political dilemma that becomes more pressing as the population ages. The Good Death confronts our fears about dying, charts our declining belief in a spiritual or religious afterlife, exposes how medical technology is making death more prolonged and unnatural than at any time in recorded history and asks the tough question that many avoid, but all must face: How do I want to die?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 对于已经到时候面对自己死亡的婴儿潮一代人而言，本书是一声尖锐的号角，邀请他们就全人类最终必须面对的死亡进行讨论。在今天选择自己如何死亡的重要性就与堕胎在上世纪七八十年代差不多。对于那些为了生育权、性别平等、反对种族和宗教歧视奋斗了整整一生的人而言，这无疑是他们最后的一场战役。
1988年，加拿大宣布堕胎是违法的。时至今日，加拿大已经成为了一个更多元化的国家。对于选择如何死亡这件事，其本质上和当时的生育选择运动在法律、道德和情感上实则有不少相通之处。当年，女权主义者推动了生育选择运动，现在，这群婴儿潮时代的人（其中不少就是女权主义者）也成为了推动死亡选择运动的助力。他们眼睁睁地看着自己的父母与老年痴呆症、癌症转移斗争，承受持久的痛苦和徒劳的治疗，这些使得他们决心避免相同的命运：最重要的就是要决定自己如何去死。
本书直面人类共同的恐惧，并提出终极问题：你想怎么死？（LYR）
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About the Author/作者介绍： SANDRA MARTIN，The Global以及Mail资深新闻特写作者，同时是一个屡获殊荣的记者和播音员。她曾两次获得国家杂志奖、Fiona Mee文学新闻奖以及Atkinson公共政策研究基金等等。2009年她受到多个基金会赞助在多伦多大学以及维多利亚大学参加了创造性纪实文学培训课程，这段经历成就了她的新作《写写讣告：改变了加拿大的五十段人生》。
SANDRA MARTIN, a senior features writer with The Globe and Mail, is an award winning journalist and broadcaster. She has won two National Magazine Awards, several citations and the Fiona Mee Award for literary journalism.
Her public policy initiatives about race and gender in the workplace won the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy from the Toronto Star in 1994. She has also been awarded a Canadian Journalism Fellowship to study at the University of Toronto, and the Harvey Southam Lectureship in Creative Non-fiction in 2009 at the University of Victoria. Those lectures formed the basis for her essays on the history, culture and future of obituaries in a 24/7 wired up world in her latest book, Working the Dead Beat: 50 Lives that Changed Canada.
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