The Inevitable
Stories of Life, Choice and the Right to Die
By: Katie Engelhart
Paperback | 6 January 2022
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'Powerful and moving. Engelhart recounts the stories of those she meets with humanity and grace.'
- Louis Theroux
Meet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? And by whom?
In The Inevitable, award-winning journalist Katie Engelhart explores one of our most abiding taboos: assisted dying. From Avril, the 80-year-old British woman illegally importing pentobarbital, to the Australian doctor dispensing suicide manuals online, Engelhart travels the world to hear the stories of those on the quest for a 'good death'.
At once intensely troubling and profoundly moving, The Inevitable interrogates our most uncomfortable moral questions. Should a young woman facing imminent paralysis be allowed to end her life with a doctor's help? Should we be free to die painlessly before dementia takes our mind? Or to choose death over old age? A deeply reported portrait of everyday people struggling to make impossible decisions, The Inevitable sheds crucial light on what it means to flourish, live and die.
About the Author
Katie Engelhart is a reporter and documentary film producer from Toronto and based in New York City. She is also a National Fellow at New America. Katie has worked as a correspondent for VICE News, based in London, and NBC News in New York. Her writing has appeared far and wide. Formerly, she was a graduate student of history and philosophy at Oxford University. This is her first book.
- Louis Theroux
Meet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? And by whom?
In The Inevitable, award-winning journalist Katie Engelhart explores one of our most abiding taboos: assisted dying. From Avril, the 80-year-old British woman illegally importing pentobarbital, to the Australian doctor dispensing suicide manuals online, Engelhart travels the world to hear the stories of those on the quest for a 'good death'.
At once intensely troubling and profoundly moving, The Inevitable interrogates our most uncomfortable moral questions. Should a young woman facing imminent paralysis be allowed to end her life with a doctor's help? Should we be free to die painlessly before dementia takes our mind? Or to choose death over old age? A deeply reported portrait of everyday people struggling to make impossible decisions, The Inevitable sheds crucial light on what it means to flourish, live and die.
About the Author
Katie Engelhart is a reporter and documentary film producer from Toronto and based in New York City. She is also a National Fellow at New America. Katie has worked as a correspondent for VICE News, based in London, and NBC News in New York. Her writing has appeared far and wide. Formerly, she was a graduate student of history and philosophy at Oxford University. This is her first book.
Industry Reviews
'There's plenty of compassion, plenty of nuance and plenty of complex thought. Engelhart is a skilled storyteller... Her brilliant book should be prescribed to all those who thinkthey have a clear view [on the right to die].' - Sunday Times
'Powerful and moving. Engelhart recounts the stories of those she meets with humanity and grace.' - Louis Theroux, bestselling author of Gotta Get Theroux This
'Deeply researched and beautifully reported... [Engelhart] writes compassionately of her subjects' struggles.' - The Economist
'A brilliantly sensitive and deeply moving account of assisted dying.' - Stephen Westaby, Sunday Times bestselling author of Fragile Lives
'Powerful and moving. Engelhart recounts the stories of those she meets with humanity and grace.' - Louis Theroux, bestselling author of Gotta Get Theroux This
'Deeply researched and beautifully reported... [Engelhart] writes compassionately of her subjects' struggles.' - The Economist
'A brilliantly sensitive and deeply moving account of assisted dying.' - Stephen Westaby, Sunday Times bestselling author of Fragile Lives
ISBN: 9781786495662
ISBN-10: 178649566X
Published: 6th January 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 352
Publisher: Atlantic
Dimensions (cm): 2.5 x 12.9 x 19.8
Weight (kg): 0.32
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