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Lecretia's Choice : a Story of Love, Death and the Law by Seales, Lecretia;Vickers, Matt is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Lecretia's Choice : a Story of Love, Death and the Law about?
A successful young lawyer in Wellington, Lecretia Seales met and fell in love with Matt Vickers in 2003. In Lecretia's Choice , Matt tells the story of their life together, and how it changed when his proud, fiercely independent wife was diagnosed with a brain tumour and forced to confront her own mortality. The death she faced—slow, painful, dependent—was completely at odds with how she had lived her life. Lecretia wanted to die with dignity, to be able to say goodbye well, and not to suffer unnecessarily—but the law denied her that choice. With her characteristic spirit, she decided to mount a challenge in New Zealand's High Court, but as the battle raged, Lecretia's strength faded. She died on 5 June 2015, at the age of forty-two, the day after her family learned that the court had ruled against her. Lecretia's Choice is not only a moving love story but compulsory reading for everyone who cares about the dignity we afford terminally ill people who want to die on their own terms. In 2015 Matt Vickers supported his wife, Lecretia Seales, in her campaign to gain the right to choose how she died. Lecretia's Choice is his first book. 'This is a brave, intimate book, both agonizin
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- Author
- Seales, Lecretia;Vickers, Matt
- Publisher
- The Text Publishing Company
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781925355598
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Medical, Law, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.42 / 5 (50 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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