At Death's Door

By Kathleen Whitney Rohr

Book Overview

Widowed, and convinced she cannot live without her husband, Jonathan, who had recently passed, Portia struggles to make peace with life. She remembers that years ago the two of them had made a pact 'If one of us dies, then the other should as well.' They had discussed it several times through the years, never dreaming this time would come so soon.As her loneliness overwhelms her, Portia searches out Death's Door, an assisted death franchise, that advertises 'death for anyone, on his or her own terms.' At odds with her adult daughter, Bethany, who believes this would be suicide, Portia moves in.Here, life's lessons begin to unfold. She befriends others, all struggling with life and life's meaning. Through the eyes of some of the residents - life and the power of death plays out. There is Stephen, an Army vet suffering from PTSD and chronic depression, Lucy, a psychiatrist suffering from recurring cancer, Vida and her three strokes, and Rob, a young woman who had tried to commit suicide for ten years, and who initially wants to die, but then changes her mind and fights her parents in court to stay alive.This is a novel that challenges our ideas of life and of death. Is it the future, or is 'future' now at our doorstep?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1523731818
• ISBN13: 9781523731817
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"