Choosing to Die: A Daughter's Story Of Supporting Her Mother's End Of Life Through Assisted Death

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Theresa E Evans

Choosing to Die

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A Daughter's Story Of Supporting Her Mother's End Of Life Through Assisted Death

Theresa E Evans

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Stone Path Press
03 March 2026

Sociology: death & dying; Coping with death & bereavement

""We are quick to talk about the miracle of life when an infant enters this world. I believe the miracle of death carries the same weight and mystery."" -- Theresa EvansAs an ICU nurse, Theresa Evans witnessed death and dying on a regular basis. She considered it a privilege and an honor to be with someone when they died.

And then her own mother chose a date with death.

So begins the extraordinary account of a mother and her three daughters preparing for death while coping with their own grief and impending loss.

As Theresa spends the final three months of her mother's life putting her mom's prolific flower garden to rest for winter, the garden becomes a living metaphor, mirroring the intrinsic cycles and timing of both life and death. Botany provides the lens while Theresa's years as a yoga teacher and clinical somatic educator anchor the emotional and ethical complexities that arise while helping a mother settle her affairs.

Through deeply personal journal entries, Choosing to Die is a masterclass on intentionally and mindfully supporting a loved one who chooses medical assistance in dying. This vivid firsthand experience is useful for caregivers, death doulas, and other professionals and volunteers involved in hospice care and palliative care. Most of all, Choosing to Die is a gift for anyone seeking clarity and compassion in the midst of one of life's most confounding decisions.

""When Mom wakes from her sleep, we bathe her. Like holy water washing her earthly film away we let layers of life puddle around her pale, fragile, age-marked body...""

By: Theresa E Evans
Imprint: Stone Path Press
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9798993266336
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 03 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Theresa E. Evans' nursing career spanned fifteen years with a focus in Critical and Cardiac Care. From 2007 till 2021 she taught yoga and somatic movement workshops from her Stone Path Yoga Studio as well as around the world, helping clients to move with less pain and more freedom. In her free time, she loves to putter in her garden with her husband, fossil hunt with her daughter, hike the Niagara Escarpment with her dogs and write.

Reviews for Choosing to Die: A Daughter's Story Of Supporting Her Mother's End Of Life Through Assisted Death

Evans' work is about the oldest subjects in existence-life, death, love, and family-and she ably navigates these turbulent waters, both as a writer and a daughter. She maintains a simple, clean prose style... Her straightforward style allows readers an unfiltered peek at intimate, trying moments. A heartfelt chronicle of a family's reckoning with a complicated matriarch. -Kirkus Reviews As a geriatrician and certified hospice provider for over 20 years, I have seen firsthand the necessary components of ""a good death"". Theresa takes us on a soulful journey with her family using her mother's garden as a vibrant metaphor of life. She is exploring a topic which is uncomfortable for many, but in desperate need of being addressed with openness, honesty and compassion. -Peter Norvid, MD, Board certified in Geriatrics, Hospice and Palliative Care Choosing to Die is a beautifully poignant story of love, loss and legacy. Theresa Evans weaves the evolution of her mother's garden alongside the family's shared preparation for her mother's medically assisted death, using the changing seasons to guide us through their shared experience. Together, they find ways to honor their mother and each other through the living legacy of her garden, shared and carried forward with love. -Kim Carlson and Paul Magennis, Registered Nurses and MAiD Educators, authors of Substack MAiD in Canada