How to Die in Orgeon (2011)
“A beautifully intimate look at terminally ill patients who choose to end their lives painlessly and legally.” – Variety
How to Die in Oregon is a remarkable and deeply moving documentary that examines the fraught issue of physician-assisted suicide.
Starting with the realities of euthanasia in Oregon, one of the few US states that has decriminalised the procedure, Richardson embarks on a poignant but unflinching survey of assisted suicide in America, from the fight for legalisation in Washington to the devastating and courageous reasons people have for actively choosing to die.
Always honest and ultimately life affirming, How to Die in Oregon is a clear-eyed, sensitive and powerfully human exploration of one of society’s most desperately fraught issues.
Winner of the US Documentary Prize at Sundance.
Director : Peter D. Richardson
The film was recently shown at the Melbourne International Film Festival
In the End (2010)
Old people used to die at home, surrounded by their loved ones. Now they are ending up in intensive care, connected to machines and surrounded by strangers.
Intensive Care specialist Dr Charlie Corke is committed to give his elderly patients every chance to get better, but he knows that sometimes the treatment is only lengthening the dying process, causing discomfort and distress.
This documentary takes us on a journey of a doctor who is trying to balance his own enthusiasm for medical technology with an acceptance that, after a long and healthy life, it’s OK to go.
IN THE END is a beautiful and profound film that follows the journey of patients, their families and their doctor dealing with a modern-day dilemma of our own making.
Developed with the assistance of SCREEN AUSTRALIA.
Supported by the STATE GOVERNMENT OF VICTORIA.
Dedicated to PATSY GLEESON, NORMA STOKES, RHODES PEARSON
Director CHARLOTTE ROSEBY
Featuring CHARLIE CORKE, VICKI TAYLOR
The Suicide Tourist (2007)
Director : John Zaritsky
The controversy over a person’s right to die at a time and place of their own choosing has become focused on the Swiss organization Dignitas. Dignitas, in Zurich Switzerland, is the only place where a person seeking an assisted suicide can legally be helped to die, no matter where they are from – or what their state of health. Craig Ewert, a 59-year-old American with motor-neuron disease, has been a radical since his college days in the sixties, and is determined not to live through his steady deterioration until what he fears may be a horrific “natural” death. Should Craig Ewert be able to kill himself, even though it could be years before his disease would kill him? Should George and Betty Coumbias be allowed to die together at a time of their choosing? For a year, Oscar-winning director John Zaritsky had exclusive access to Dignitas, and its clients. Through the intimate, compelling, and controversial stories of four lives – and one death – The Suicide Tourist will take the audience on a journey they could only have imagined, and won’t forget.
Winner (2009): Audience Award, Best Documentary, Sedona Film Festival.
Winner (2007): Special Mention, NFB Best Canadian Documentary Feature Award, Vancouver International Film Festival
Preview | Blog by Craig’s son Ivan Ewert
Buy : Beyond Productions 109 Reserve Road Artarmon, NSW 2064 Tel: 61-2-9437 200
Email : hien_tran@beyond.com.au
Mademoiselle and the Doctor (2004)
Philip Nitschke helps seventy-nine-year-old Lisette Nigot who has decided to end her life. A moving portrait illustrating the idea of ‘rational suicide’.
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The Sea Inside (2004)
Mar adentro (original title)
125 m
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar with Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda and Lola Dueñas
The real-life story of Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
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