![]() ![]() Her most recent book, The Cost of Hope, is part-memoir, part-investigative report, about her seven-year struggle within the American healthcare system to save her husband from cancer. ![]() In 2010, Bennett was elected as co-Chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board.īennett has written six books. In 1997, Bennett shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a Wall Street Journal investigation on the struggle against AIDS, and in 2001 received a second Pulitzer Prize for public service, as the lead of a team at The Oregonian. She was also a reporter for The Wall Street Journal for more than 20 years, and at The Oregonian in Portland. After his death, Bennett uses her skills as a veteran investigative reporter to determine the cost of their mission of hope. She was formerly the Executive Editor of Projects and Investigations for Bloomberg News. The Cost of Hopechronicles the extraordinary measures Amanda and Terence take to preserve not only Terence’s life but also the life of their family. Journalist Amanda Bennett explains why having hope while watching a loved one die shouldn't warrant a diagnosis of "denial." She calls for a more heroic narrative for death - to match the ones we have in life.Īmanda Bennett a freelance journalist and writer. ![]() Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Rethinking Death ![]()
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