[Linganth] Scripting Death

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Mara Buchbinder answers Hyemin Lee's questions
addressing her book, Scripting Death.

https://campanthropology.org/

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as
assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now
legally available to one in five Americans. This growing social and
political movement heralds the possibility of a new era of choice in dying.
Yet very little is publicly known about how medical aid-in-dying laws
affect ordinary citizens once they are put into practice. Sociological
studies of new health policies have repeatedly demonstrated that the
realities often fall short of advocacy visions, raising questions about how
much choice and control aid-in-dying actually affords.

*Scripting Death *chronicles two years of ethnographic research documenting
the implementation of Vermont’s 2013 Patient Choice and Control at End of
Life Act. Author Mara Buchbinder weaves together stories collected from
patients, caregivers, health care providers, activists, and legislators to
illustrate how they navigate aid-in-dying as a new medical frontier in the
aftermath of legalization. *Scripting Death* explains how medical
aid-in-dying works, what motivates people to pursue it, and ultimately, why
upholding the “right to die” is very different from ensuring access to this
life-ending procedure. This unprecedented, in-depth account uses the case
of assisted death as an entry point into ongoing cultural conversations
about the changing landscape of death and dying in the United States.
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