01908cam a2200313 4500 607554580 TxAuBib 20211103120000.0 201015s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063094246 hardcover 006309424X hardcover (OCoLC)1200307256 YDX eng YDX JTJ ORX OI6 OCLCO OCLCF ILC VP@ TxAuBib Shriver, Lionel, author. Should we stay or should we go : a novel / Lionel Shriver. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] ©2021. 266 pages ; 24 cm. When her father, who had been ravaged by Alzheimer's for ten years, dies, Kay and her husband, Cyril, determined to one day die with dignity, take control of their final years by making a pact to exit the world together at the age of eighty. Over ten years, Kay Wilkinson watched as Alzheimer's steadily eroded her father into a paranoid lunatic. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal: To spare themselves and their loved ones such a humiliating and protracted decline, they should agree to commit suicide together once they've both turned eighty. When their deal is sealed, the spouses are blithely looking forward to another three decades together. But then they turn eighty.... -- adapted from jacket. 20211103. Married people Fiction. Older people Fiction. Suicide pacts Fiction. Choice (Psychology) Fiction. Novels. TXMIT