My mum was begging to die in her last days – I wish I had been strong enough to help her

Neil LaBute: ‘The idea that we should be deprived of deciding when our life might end is maddening’ - (Quim Llenas)

I was in Grand Central Terminal last week in New York City, coming back from a voiceover recording for a “director’s track” on an upcoming DVD release from the Criterion Collection, and I stopped into a little toy store to pick up a few figurines for my five-year-old daughter when I interrupted two employees deep in the middle of the following discussion:

“Would you rather know when you were going to die or how you were going to die?”