The Last Goodnights: Assisting My Parents with Their Suicides

A unique, powerful, and unflinching look inside the reality of one of the most galvanizing issues of our time: assisted suicide.

A husband and wife, both medical professionals, are gravely ill. Rather than living in pain, they choose to end their lives, and they turn to their son for help. Despite the legal risks and certain emotional turmoil, he agrees—and ultimately performs an act of love more difficult than any other.

Told with intensity and bare honesty, John West’s account of the deaths...