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Wendy Miller, a renowned author on dementia, and Dan Winter both opted for self-directed endings to their lives amidst the progression of Alzheimer's, underscoring the need for broader access to end-of-life choices like medical assistance in dying (MAiD).

Having read an account of someone who stood by her husband and helped him through an assisted suicide out of love was extremely heart-wrenching.

The US writer and psychotherapist on helping her husband to die and finding the humour in writing about it – and why she’s now spending more time with waves and sunsets

The newly formatted prize will, for the first time, name winners in fiction, nonfiction and poetry and the shortlist includes writers from across the world

In a heartbreaking memoir Amy Bloom tells how her husband ended his life. Brian Ameche, faced a terrible dilemma after being told that he had dementia

A ‘sharply observed, often witty, eminently moving memoir’

“I have failed him” is a confession that Amy Bloom utters more than once of her husband, Brian Ameche, in her courageous howl of a memoir. Spoiler alerts aren’t required to say that, ultimately, she does no such thing, even though ensuring that it’s so means making good on the ultimate pledge: helping her beloved kill himself. Assisted suicide is the preferred wording at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, to where she and 66-year-old Ameche will eventually travel from their Connecticut ...

The author’s searing account of helping her husband to end his life at Switzerland’s Dignitas clinic is full of heartache… and dark humour

In early 2020, New York based writer Amy Bloom travelled to Switzerland with her husband Brian Ameche to allow him to legally end his own life.The moving acc...

After a devastating Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Brian Ameche opted for ‘accompanied suicide’ with Dignitas in Zurich