Cara wants to keep her father on life support Edward struggles with resentment but believes his father wouldn't want to exist in a vegetative state. His ex-wife, Georgie, remarried to a lawyer, summons Cara's brother, Edward, from Thailand, where he's lived for years alienated from his family, who assume the estrangement stems from his father's rejection of Edward's homosexuality. Now divorced and raising his 17-year-old daughter, Cara, near his wolf compound, Luke sustains a traumatic brain injury in an accident. This is really interesting because I think it means what people were looking for was just the control over the situation.Picoult returns with two provocative questions: can a human join a wolf pack, and who has the right to make end-of-life decisions? Luke Warren, a vital free spirit, has devoted himself to understanding wolf behavior, to the point of having once abandoned his family to live with wolves. After 100 prescriptions had been issued, only 2 of them were actually sold. An interesting little fact about assisted suicide for example, is that in the state of Oregon they passed a referendum to make it legal, and the first year they did it there were approximately 100 prescriptions that people who had a terminal illness and asked their doctors to write out a prescription so that they could get the medication if they decided they wanted it. I actually was on a TV show in England and I was talking about this. How do you feel about assisted suicide?I have very strong beliefs in favour of that. But aside from that, although I've not lived through the situation myself, talking with my parents about do not resuscitate orders and living wills meant I got to a point in my life where this situation, this problem, was becoming a more compelling to me. He really helped me either do the medical research I needed from a neurology standpoint. Anyway I called him and he said "oh of course I remember you! I follow your career, you've done very well for yourself!". This was when nobody knew I was writing anything. He was talking about these traumatic brain injury cases and the life decisions that have to be made around them, and I talked to him for about half an hour and I said: "I'm going to write a book about this one day".
Did this come out of a personal experience? It actually came from a time about a decade ago when I was on a plane next to a man who was a neurosurgeon.
"Lone Wolf" addresses that dreadful dilemma of families keeping loved ones alive artificially.
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