Mercy Denied is not just about dying. It’s mostly a love story about Ada’s efforts to live a full, happy, and loving life despite her physical and psychiatric issues, as well as about the author’s efforts to mitigate her suffering and prolong her life. It’s also about his advocacy for compassionate changes to the American Medical Aid in Dying programs that denied Ada and continue to deny people with debilitating nonterminal conditions the mercy of dying peacefully when they want to end their suffering.
About Mercy Denied
Mercy Denied is not just about dying. It’s mostly a love story about Ada’s efforts to live a full, happy, and loving life despite her physical and psychiatric issues, as well as about the author’s efforts to mitigate her suffering and prolong her life. It’s also about his advocacy for compassionate changes to the American Medical Aid in Dying programs that denied Ada and continue to deny people with debilitating nonterminal conditions the mercy of dying peacefully when they want to end their suffering.
About the Author
Roger Fidler is a retired journalist and journalism professor. He worked in the newspaper business for 34 years and academia for 20 years. He is best known for conceiving and pursuing his vision of digital newspapers delivered online and displayed on mobile devices, which anticipated today’s tablets and smartphones. He is the author of Mediamorphosis: Understanding New Media (Pine Forge Press/Sage, 1997) and Touching the Future: My Odyssey from Print to Online Publishing (Amazon, 2019).
Fidler was a 1991-92 Freedom Forum Fellow at Columbia University in New York City. In 1999 the Newseum honored him as an electronic news pioneer and one of history’s most intriguing newspeople in Crusaders, Scoundrels, Journalists (Eric Newton, ed., Times Books/Random House). In 2004 the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia selected him as its inaugural fellow, and the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication inducted him into its Hall of Achievement. In 2011 the Society of News Design presented Fidler with its Lifetime Achievement Award. He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. More about the author’s life can be found on Wikipedia.
