Jojo Moyes

Physician-Assisted Suicide With the recent popularity of the book and movie, Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, the already controversial topic of physician-assisted suicide has been brought back into the limelight. The story follows the love story of a permanently paralyzed man and his caretaker. Overwrought with pain and suffering, the quadriplegic chooses to end his life through the assistance of a physician, much to the despair of his caretaker. Minus the love story, part of my life is…

the help of nursing assistants. Those patients want people to remember them as what they used to be like, not as someone who is weak. That is why most patients want to die with dignity. Such situation was mentioned in “Me Before You,” a novel by Jojo Moyes. The main character Will Traynor, a successful, wealthy, and once-active young man who was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident. It was hard for him to continue living the life of a quadriplegic. He hates not being able to do things that he used…