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Publisher
Kino Lorber Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Defining Hope is a documentary that weaves the stories of patients with life-threatening illness, and the nurses who guide them as they make choices about how they want to live, how much medical technology they can accept, what they hope for and how that hope evolves. It is about optimism and helps us define what 'quality of life' really means. The film focuses on palliative care, end of life issues, and hospice care. It offers a hopeful message...
Publisher
Burning Hay Wagon Productions
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"Motivated by their personal experiences with loss, two long-time friends -- one a hospice worker and the other a State Teacher of the Year -- present a powerful and inspiring film on the American struggle with communication and preparation at the end-of-life. "Consider the Conversation" examines multiple perspectives on end-of-life care and includes interviews with patients, family members, doctors, nurses, clergy, social workers, and national experts...
3) Serving life
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years. It documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for their dying fellow inmates. In doing so, they embark on a journey that may end in personal rehabilitation.
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Renowned journalist Bill Moyers interviews dozens of terminally ill patients and caregivers in an emotional and pragmatic look at the way Americans face death. The series offers illuminating perspectives on the sometimes controversial ethical, medical, and economic forces that can drive a person's choices about death.
[1] Living with Dying : Describes the search for new ways of thinking and talking about dying. Forgoing the usual reluctance that...
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