{"id":23078,"date":"1998-04-07T13:54:51","date_gmt":"1998-04-07T17:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=23078"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:51:53","slug":"assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1998\/04\/07\/assisted-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed essayist to discuss assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Mairs, an acclaimed essayist confined for many years to a  wheelchair, discusses <em>Life&#8217;s Worth: Rethinking Who Lives, Who Dies<\/em> in the annual Bertha May Bell Andrews Memorial Lecture in  Ethics and Education at Bates April 20 at 7:30 p.m. in  the Benjamin Mays Center. Also on April 20 in the Mays Center, at 4 p.m.,  Mairs will read from her recently published book<em> Waist-High in the  World: A Life Among the Nondisabled<\/em>. The public is invited to attend  both events free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Mairs, a regular columnist for The Christian  Century, will explore the topic of assisted suicide in the broad context  of the communal life in the late 20th century, according to Bates  College Chaplain Kerry Ann Maloney.<\/p>\n<p>As a woman who has lived with multiple sclerosis for 30  years, the last 10 of them in a wheelchair, Mairs wrote, &#8220;A life  commonly held to be insufferable can be full and funny. I&#8217;m living the  life.&#8221; The New York Times Book Review called Mairs &#8220;a relentlessly  physical writer, as fiercely committed to her art as to her spiritual  development.&#8221; The San Francisco Chronicle called her essays &#8220;so touching  and heartbreakingly honest that one often has to put the book down and  rest emotionally before reading on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Winner of the 1995 EDI Media Award for Print Journalism,  Mairs is the author of several books, including <em>Voice Lessons<\/em> (Beacon Press, 1997), <em>Ordinary Time<\/em> (Beacon Press, 1994), <em>Remembering the Bone House <\/em>(Beacon Press, 1995), <em>Plaintext <\/em>(University of Arizona Press, 1992)<em> <\/em>and<em> Carnal  Acts <\/em>(Beacon Press, 2 ed., 1996). She lives in Tucson, Ariz., with her husband, George.<\/p>\n<p>A fixture at Bates since 1975, the Andrews Lecture is a  memorial to Bertha May Bell Andrews, who served on the Bates faculty  from 1913 to 1917 and established the women&#8217;s physical education program  at the college. The lectureship was established by her son, Dr. Carl B.  Andrews of the Bates class of 1940.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Mairs, an acclaimed essayist confined for many years to a  wheelchair, discusses <em>Life&#8217;s Worth: Rethinking Who Lives, Who Dies<\/em> in the annual Bertha May Bell Andrews Memorial Lecture in  Ethics and Education at Bates April 20 at 7:30 p.m. in  the Benjamin Mays Center. Also on April 20 in the Mays Center, at 4 p.m.,  Mairs will read from her recently published book<em> Waist-High in the  World: A Life Among the Nondisabled<\/em>. 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