Judith Letting Go - 9781613322369

Judith Letting GoSix Months in the World's Smallest Death Cafe\nAuthor(s): Mark Dowie\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New Village Press, United States\nImprint: New Village Press\nISBN-13: 9781613322369, 978-1613322369\nSynopsis\nAn old man learns how to die from a poet facing death\n For the entire six months that Mark Dowie became friends with Judith Tannenbaum, they both knew she was going to die. In fact, for most of that time they knew the exact hour she would go: sometime between 11:00 AM and noon, December 5, 2019, which she did.\n Judith was a poet, writer, activist, and artist who worked for decades teaching and collaborating with imprisoned lifers. Beloved by her community, Judith told almost no one when she was diagnosed with an incurable disease that would cause her immeasurable pain. Instead she chose to end life on her own terms. \n When they met, Mark Dowie had already been working for years to advocate for physician assistance in dying for terminally ill people in his h.