This soft-focus, woo-woo-music-festooned movie is an accompaniment to a feature story in this week’s New York Times Magazine. The video is fine. But the article is terrific, unforgettable journalism by Robin Marantz Henig about one of the world’s premier authorities on death with dignity and her husband, who became quadriplegic at 72 after a cycling accident.
Prepare to be plunged into the weird place in your brain between believing we have the right to die—with clarity of mind—and the nuanced, attachment-fraught, roller coaster of health that clouds end of life decisions. Read every word.