Cover of Long Goodbye

Long Goodbye

Looks at the 1987 right-to-die trial affecting the parents who wished to remove the feeding tube from their vegetative daughter, and examines the surrounding protests that held them in the courtroom for the next seven years.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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