Amanda Bennett: We need a heroic narrative for death
Amanda Bennett: We hebben een heroïsch verhaal nodig voor de dood
In "The Cost of Hope," Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Amanda Bennett brings an investigative angle to the conversation about end-of-life care. Full bio
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van middelbare leeftijd
San Francisco
van varkensvoeding,
en over de wereld gereisd,
terugkeerde,
terugkeerde.
een agressieve, nare behandeling.
en dat werkte.
de zorg rond het levenseinde,
om afscheid te nemen.
[De prijs van de hoop]
deed wat zij hadden gedaan.
voor wat ik tegen het einde aan deed,
doormaken.
iemand onsterfelijk te maken."
lang geleden,
niet elke vijand kan verslaan,
hoe hard ze ook haar best doet,
over palliatieve zorg,
palliatieve zorg,
en het afscheid van een held.
die het leven overtrof,
de beslissingen van mensen
met de kracht van die hoop.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Amanda Bennett - JournalistIn "The Cost of Hope," Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Amanda Bennett brings an investigative angle to the conversation about end-of-life care.
Why you should listen
Amanda Bennett is the Executive Editor of Projects and Investigations for Bloomberg News. Previously she served for three years as the Managing Editor of projects for The Oregonian in Portland and was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal for more than 20 years.
In 1997 Bennett shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a Wall Street Journal investigation on the struggle against AIDS, and in 2001 received a second Pulitzer Prize, for public service, as the lead of a team at The Oregonian. In 2010 Bennett was elected as co-Chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Bennett has written six books. Her most recent book, The Cost of Hope, is part-memoir, part-investigative report, about her seven-year struggle within the American healthcare system to save her husband from cancer.
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