But what if she wants to die

by George E. Delury

"George E. Delury writes with great candor about the role he played in assisting in the suicide of Myrna Lebov, his wife of twenty-two years. Myrna was afflicted with multiple sclerosis, an incurable, crippling disease. Confined to a wheelchair for over four years, she also suffered from increasingly severe mental losses."--BOOK JACKET. "During her final months, Delury kept a diary in which he agonized over how he could help Myrna as she vacillated between a desire to die and a wish to live, between depression and euphoria."--BOOK JACKET. ""Her suffering," he writes, "was largely psychological and easily dissimulated. Most of the time she disguised the fact that she chafed terribly at the restrictions on her life, and at the necessary but boring concentration on the physical details of managing her handicaps. In that, I suffered with her. As her mind showed increasing signs of decay, I mourned the slow disappearance of the woman I loved - the lively and insightful conversationalist, th