In this book, Dr Rynne recounts the tragic true story of a young woman who, due to medical incompetence, was left in a chronic vegetative state for nearly two decades. The book follows the victim's mother's tireless fight to allow her daughter to die with dignity, facing opposition from the very doctors responsible for the catastrophe.

 

Dr Rynne sheds light on the authoritarian attitude prevalent among some doctors in Ireland up until the 1970s and the devastating consequences it had on patients and their families.