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We’re all going to die, but – despite heated debate over euthanasia – we still have no control over how. Steve Amsterdam, Matt Vickers and Dr Leah Kaminsky share three very personal stories about why dignity for the dying is so important.
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2016 On Death and Dying
Matt Vickers
In 2015 Matt Vickers supported his wife, Lecretia Seales, in her campaign to gain the right to choose how she died. Lecretia’s Choice is his first book.
Steven Amsterdam
Steven Amsterdam is the award winning author of Things We Didn’t See Coming (winner of the Age Book of the Year, Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award for Fiction and long-listed for The Guardian First Book Award) and What the Family Needed (AWW Great Read and long-listed for the Dublim IMPAC literary award). He lives in Melbourne with his partner where he works as a palliative care nurse.
Dr Leah Kaminsky
Leah Kaminsky, a physician and award-winning writer, is Poetry & Fiction Editor at the Medical Journal of Australia and former Online Editor at Hunger Mountain. Her debut novel The Waiting Room is published by Vintage (2015) and will be released by Harper Perennial US in 2016. We’re all Going to Die was released by HarperCollins in June 2016, for which she was awarded the Reading Glenfern fellowship for an Established author in 2014 and the RMIT University McCraith Fellowship in 2015. She conceived and edited Writer MD, a collection of prominent physician – writers, which starred on Booklist (Knopf US 2012). She is co-author of Cracking the Code, with the Damiani family (Vintage 2015). She holds and MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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