Best of
Illness

1978

A Death of One's Own


Gerda Lerner - 1978
    This is a story out of ordinary life, about love and endurance and loyalty."-Elizabeth Janeway, author"This is a deeply moving and exquisitely sensitive account."-Daniel Schorr, journalist and author"A great book.unflinchingly revelatory of its writer, a man, a marriage-reflective of the passionate richness the last passage of life can have."-Honor Moore, author and poet"In her deeply moving document, Lerner copes with the moral questions of the patient's right to know, his right to choose, his right to die. Though intensely personal, Lerner's story speaks with a universal quality."-Wilma Salisbury, "Cleveland Plain Dealer""This book gives one hope-that marriage, in the very real sense of the word, is still possible."-Eleanor Perry, screenwriter