From conspiracy to enlightenment...
What if the CEOs of health and long-term care insurance companies, whose bonuses depend upon increasing profits reached their last resort to decrease costs and now must encourage patients to hasten dying?
What if they found a research physician who craved fame and fortune for his two contributions? —A computer program that allows totally paralyzed patients to commit suicide, and a “trio” of prescription medications that are lethal when combined, but individually can slip under the radar of the Drug Enforcement Agency. To produce a video documentary to influence patients and doctors to hasten dying, only one component would then be missing: their star.
-- “A masterpiece of suspense in the world of terminally ill patients and their caregivers, with corporate greed leads to murder and terrorism, Lethal Choice weaves prominent right-to-die issues into scenes that are sometimes violent, sometimes romantic, but always dramatic. This medical thriller reads like a movie!”
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- Excerpt from the novel (PDF) »
- Foreword by Medical Ethicist Ronald B. Miller, M.D. (PDF) »
- Author's position statement on Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide »