We’re selling copies of the sold-out book Lecretia’s Choice for $30. Will you buy a book to support our campaign?

This book is a moving tribute to the extraordinary legal campaigner Lecretia Seales, written by her husband Matt Vickers. Lecretia spent the final years of her life challenging the ban on assisted dying here in New Zealand in the Court.

This book has sold out in stores and we have a limited copies available for $30 each.

If you’d like to buy copies of the book, please email info@yesforcompassion.org.nz with your:

Name
Address
No. of copies you’d like
Deposit the money with your last name as the reference to: 2020 END OF LIFE CHOICE ACT REFERENDUM INCORPORATED 02-0536-0233355-000

All proceeds will directly fund our campaign in favour of the End of Life Choice Act becoming law in New Zealand at the referendum on 17 October.

Please note: we’ll endeavour to post these as soon as possible but shipping may be delayed due to COVID. We anticipate posting these early September and are currently accept pre-orders.

A little more about the book:

A brilliant and hardworking young lawyer in Wellington, Lecretia’s life changed completely when she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

The death she faced – slow, painful, dependent – was completely at odds with how she had lived her life. She wanted to die with dignity, to be able to say goodbye well, and not to suffer unnecessarily – but the law denied her that choice.

Lecretia decided to mount a legal challenge to New Zealand’s arbitrary ban on assisted dying in the High Court. She sadly died on 5 June 2015, at the age of 42, the day after she learned that the court had ruled against her.

As well as a moving story, this book outlines the legal case, testimonies from experts and international evidence on end of life choice in a clear, concise way.

You can read reviews of the book here: http://lecretia.org/book/