The Inevitable

There's plenty of compassion, plenty of nuance and plenty of complex thought. Engelhart is a skilled storyteller... Her brilliant book should be prescribed to all those who think they have a clear view [on the right to die]. * Sunday Times *
Compelling... Death is the only thing that's certain in life (hence the book's title) - and yet hardly anyone wants to discuss it. Engelhart is a wonderful exception, and her book is superb: well-reasoned arguments with absorbing personal stories. * Daily Mail *
Remarkably nuanced, empathetic, and well-crafted. * New Yorker *
Deeply researched and beautifully reported... [Engelhart] writes compassionately of her subjects' struggles * The Economist *
Powerful and moving. Engelhart recounts the stories of those she meets with humanity and grace. * Louis Theroux, bestselling author of Gotta Get Theroux This *
A brilliantly sensitive and deeply moving account of assisted dying. * Stephen Westaby, Sunday Times bestselling author of Fragile Lives *
I couldn't stop reading. Katie Engelhart refuses to look away from death, or more accurately, from dying. The Inevitable challenges us to keep looking and asking hard questions, even if we are uncomfortable with the answers. * Anne Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family *
Katie Engelhart has addressed an important question with clarity and compassion, drawing on the experience of individuals who, in their choices about when and how to die, teach us that a dignified and peaceful death adds value to life. * A. C. Grayling, bestselling author of The Good Book *
If your much-loved dog is suffering and incurable, you ask a vet to end her life peacefully and painlessly. It is the moral thing to do. But for you and me it is different. In the transition to our peaceful oblivion, we are condemned to endure a purgatorial interlude of more or less protracted dying. There is a legal double standard. Katie Engelhart ably sets out the case for the right to choose when to die. I find it hard to imagine how a decent and rational person could resist it. * Richard Dawkins *
A vital, gripping, deeply reported book, on what for us all of, sooner or later, is the most important topic in our lives. * Ben Judah, bestselling author of This is London *
Brilliant... Engelhart's interviewees have a different story to tell. * The Spectator *
Beautiful... The Inevitable is impressive for its author's willingness to acknowledge mixed and murky motives * TLS *