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Appearing a few months after the death of Sue Rodriguez, Uncommon Will not only traces the process of Rodriguez's much - reported fight to legalize physician - assisted suicide, but also touchingly fills in many personal details of her life that were omitted in the media's coverage.
Collaborating with Rodriguez in this project was Lisa Hobbs Birnie, a B.C. - based journalist and the author of six previous books. Written in the third person, but clearly voicing Rodriguez's inner thoughts and feelings, the book begins with her discovery - when she was an athletic woman of 41 - that she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. She goes on to describe her encounters with the medical profession, the way she coped with...