A Candid Conversation With Public Radio’s Diane Rehm: "Many Of Us Marry Our Mothers; I Did"

US President Barack Obama stands next to radio host Diane Rehm while her citation is read before presenting her with the National Humanities Medal during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on July 28, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

A Candid Conversation With Public Radio’s Diane Rehm, The Daughter Of Syrian Immigrants

Public radio host Diane Rehm‘s new book “On My Own” details her husband’s battle with Parkinson’s Disease, and her decision to support “right to choose to die,” as she puts it, after John Rehm was denied assisted suicide and starved himself to death. In the first of a two-part interview, Here & Now’s Robin Young speaks with Rehm about her often fraught marriage and her husband’s illness.

Guest

• Diane Rehm, former radio show host and advocate for the Right to Die movement. She tweets @drshow.