Time to Go

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>88 years old with an older and infirm husband Susie wanted to avoid sliding into infantilised catatonia. The son immediately started taking notes and Time to Go is the result.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In turns a manual for those considering the benefits of assisted dying a portrait of a mother son relationship and a sympathetic description of old age this book is a route map through the moral legal emotional intellectual and practical maze that is the biggest issue facing the senior generations today: leaving life on their own terms.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>During their conversations about when and how to make Susie's final exit some of the difficulties of their fractious relationship mellowed and some even melted as the reality of what they were planning brought them together.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Many elderly people like Susie have clearly stated that they wish to die in a manner and time of their choosing. But the church the law the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry stand in the way wagging their fingers.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A change is coming for the rights of the elderly the way it has come for the rights of women and gay people. Time to Go is a rallying call in this fight.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Life is too precious not to be lived properly. As with a job a relationship or a party you have to know when it's time to go.</span></p>