Timely Death:
Considering Our Last Rights
 First edition cover of Canadian release
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| Author |
Anne Mullens |
| Country |
Canada |
| Subject |
Euthanasia |
| Genre |
non-fiction, book |
| Publisher |
Knopf Canada |
Publication date |
May 7, 1996 |
| Media type |
Print (hardback and paperback) |
| Pages |
372 pp. |
| ISBN |
9780394280844
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Timely Death: Considering Our Last Rights is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer Anne Mullens, first published in May 1996 by Knopf Canada. In the book, the author chronicles medical advances and increased longevity in the context of the right to a dignified death. The book has been called a "well-researched and comprehensive book, written with compassion and clarity." Anne Mullens, covered the Sue Rodriguez story as a journalist for The Vancouver Sun and later for the Toronto Star. This was Mullens's inspiration for writing the book and she said "her attitude towards death changed during the course of writing it".
Awards and honours
Timely Death received the 1997 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction".
See also
External links
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Susan Mayse, Ginger (1991)
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Marie Wadden, Nitassinan, (1992)
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Liza Potvin, White Lies (for my mother) and Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana (1993)
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Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life (1994)
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Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children (1995)
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George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy (1996)
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Anne Mullens, Timely Death (1997)
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Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King (1998)
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Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane (1999)
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Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows (2000)
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Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues (2001)
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Tom Allen, Rolling Home (2002)
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Alison Watt, The Last Island (2003)
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Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue (2004)
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Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret (2005)
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Francis Chalifour, After (2006)
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Linden MacIntyre, Causeway (2007)
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Bruce Serafin, Stardust (2008)
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Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House (2009)
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John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life (2010)
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Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost (2011)
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Joshua Knelman, Hot Art (2012)
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Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss (2013)
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Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014)
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Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats (2015)
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Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club (2016)
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Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo (2017)
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Pauline Dakin, Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018)
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Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019)
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