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Wonderful

Wonderful

Cohen, Benoit

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralDeath & Dying

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ISBN10: 1938461703
ISBN13: 9781938461705
Publisher: Pointed Leaf Press
Published: Dec 23 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Benoit Cohen's Wonderful, with his hymn to life, delicately and lucidly stages an exploration of personal responsibility, and family choices about how people can exit life today.

Ten years have passed since Benoit Cohen's father's death, but the circumstances of his passing remain deeply painful and complicated. Wonderful is a touching and insightful exploration of some of the hardest questions about life, death, family, and responsibility. Cohen knew he would have to tell his family's story, which took place in Paris, in conjunction with his mother and two brothers. After a devastating cancer diagnosis, his father was terrified of death. His family sought to prevent him from undue suffering or having their actions arouse suspicion. His father's lucidly tenacious, but fundamentally irrational self-denial in the face of a terminal diagnosis, reveals a revelatory chapter in one family's experience with grief, loss, death and dying. With respect and love, Benoit and his family are determined to find a way to help his father depart with dignity and ease. But they come up against the frustrations of a health care system in which palliative care can be difficult to access or is reserved for only a fortunate few. Personal choices regarding right-to-die issues are legally sanctioned in many countries, whereas in others they are met with the specter of criminality. As they discover, there are few legal options (if any) to explore the path to peaceful exit and relief.

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