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    When Is It Right to Die?: A Comforting and Surprising Look at Death and Dying
    When Is It Right to Die?: A Comforting and Surprising Look at Death and Dying
    When Is It Right to Die?: A Comforting and Surprising Look at Death and Dying
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    When Is It Right to Die?: A Comforting and Surprising Look at Death and Dying

    Written by Joni Eareckson Tada

    Narrated by Joni Eareckson Tada

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    More and more people who are terminally ill are choosing assisted suicide. When is it Right to Die? offers a different path with alternatives of hope, compassion, and death with real dignity. Joni Eareckson Tada knows what it means to wrestle with this issue and to wish for a painless solution. For the last 50 years she has been confined to a wheelchair and struggled against her own paralysis. And she sat by the bedside of her dying father, thinking, So much suffering, why not end it all quickly, painlessly?The terminally ill, the elderly, the disabled, the depressed and suicidal, can all be swept up into this movement of self-deliverance. Skip the suffering. Put a quick end to merciless pain and mental anguish. These are tempting enticements to the hurting. Joni doesn't give pat answers. Instead, she gives warm comfort from God and practical help to meet the realities for those facing death.When Is It Right to Die tells the stories of families who have wrestled with end-of-life questions and found that death with dignity does not necessarily mean three grams of Phenobarbital in the veins. Behind every right-to-die situation is a family. A family like yours. In her warm, personal way, Joni takes the reader into the lives of families and lets them speak about assisted suicide. What they say is surprising.Whether you have a dying family member, facing moral and medical choices, or struggling with a chronic condition that feels overwhelming, this book will help you find practical encouragement and biblical advice to help you make difficult decisions.This book is revised and updated to examine the current events, trending issues, and the rising acceptance of assisted suicide in this country.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristianAudio.com
    Release dateJan 30, 2018
    ISBN9781545900345
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    Joni Eareckson Tada

    Joni Eareckson Tada is CEO of Joni and Friends, a global ministry that serves the practical and spiritual needs of people with disabilities. She is also an artist and the author of numerous bestselling books, including Joni; A Place of Healing; and When God Weeps. Joni and her husband, Ken, reside in Calabasas, California.

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    • 5/5
      Thanks for the audio book. I enjoyed how Joni shared experience and encouraged those who had to undergo such pain/disability in their lives. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to finish reading it. But I took my phone with me everywhere and finally got the time. :) Thanks Scribd!
    • 1/5
      An evenglist wrote this book so don't expect any scientific research on the calim that the author makes. She can only say jesus heals and Bible doesn't allow euthanasia and all that religious non sense.she put forward her disability to confront euthanasia proponent.
      Readers need to know that she has made a huge profit from her disability: made songs and movies. Even got nominated for oscar award : How come? Political connections. These religious people are rich, political, baised and hypocrite.

      Don't listen to evenglists. These moralistic won't let you live or die. They want you to live as per thier so call divine way.if people die as per thier will the economy will collapse. So government, religious societies they won't let you die otherwise whom they would rule?
    • 4/5
      Since I may have to make hard decisions about my elderly father, I was thankful for the opportunity to read this book and get some Biblical guidance. (This was written back in 1982.)