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Eleanor Clift on Love, Death, and Politics
ResumeBut then the broader question, in a country that tries to defy mortality, may be: what is a "good" or "timely" death?
Journalist Eleanor Clift faced these issues three years ago. As her husband was at home dying from cancer, Terri Schiavo's veru public death was in the spotlight. In a new memoir, Clift contrasts these two deaths and looks at how we die in America, and what it means.
This hour, On Point: Eleanor Clift on love, life, and death.Guest:
Eleanor Clift, contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, panelist on The McLaughlin Group, author of "Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics"
This program aired on April 25, 2008.