Name: Into the Ether: Life, Death and the Illusion of Choice with Amy Banks, MD
Start: 2024-10-19T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Follen Church Society-Unitarian Universalist

Into the Ether: Life, Death and the Illusion of Choice with Amy Banks, MD

Kate Banks, renowned children’s book author, “chose” to end her life by voluntary assisted death on February 24, 2024. She died peacefully within minutes ending a two-year odyssey with stage 4 neuroendocrine cancer. Before her death, she asked her sister Amy to share this extraordinary experience and to help people talk about death, not just the grief of losing a loved one but about the inevitability we all share in leaving our physical bodies. She believed, at her core, that death was an extension of life, a transition that all living beings experience. During Kate’s battle with cancer, she began writing poetry seriously. As she described her creative process, she was literally channeling universal energies and wisdom onto the page. In stunning detail and profound prose she wrote of pivotal moments in her own life that shaped her earthly mind and body. She hoped to be around till its publication date, however, when it was clear her time in this body was coming to an end, she asked her sister, Amy, to usher the poetry and her wisdom into the world.
Join Amy Banks MD, a Lexington psychiatrist, author, teacher and fellow soul searcher in an exploration— through stories, images and Kate’s posthumously published book of poetry, Into the Ether—of the life, death and wisdom of Kate Banks, a prolific children’s book author, energy healer, wife, mother, sister, daughter, aunt… and poet.