Book review: In Love by Amy Bloom
A ‘sharply observed, often witty, eminently moving memoir’
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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 home in January 2020, in order for him to down a fatal dose of sodium pentobarbital. They’ll fly b...
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