[The Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death—Memoirs] is a truly immoral book!…

And who occasions this prim judgment? A 74-year-old-lady whose literary reputation and best seller status began with some gentle tales of the gentle Quakers called The Friendly Persuasion….

Miss West has come a long way from the "Theeing", "Thouing" Birdwells of The Friendly Persuasion….

In this latest book, an autobiographed memoir, Jessamyn West herself not only "confesses" her own suicide plans during her bout with tuberculosis in her late twenties but reveals that she gladly and proudly administered the requested lethal dose of sleeping pills that terminated her sister Carmen's battle with cancer. Not only does Miss West tell of her involvement in this suicide-euthanasia, she exerts all of her not inconsiderable narrative talents and skills to attempt to seduce the reader with no friendly persuasion into acquiescing in this act and affirming...