This 2011 film is a powerful piece of documentary work. It, as the name implies, takes place in the US State of Oregon and explored Oregon’s Death With Dignity act. Some of you may be unaware but Oregon was the first US State to pass a ‘right to die’ act which allows for legal...
In this chapter we describe and analyse the public debates on death with dignity in Argentina, from the first attempts to regulate the rights of terminally ill patients to the political process that resulted in the 'death with dignity' Act. Based on documentary sources and sociology of public ...
Eighmey says Death with Dignity hasn’t been as aggressive about accessing pentobarbital as it was nine months ago, largely because some people have instead used a drug cocktail for aid in dying that was developed in the Netherlands: phenobarbital mixed with morphine sulfate, chloral hydrate ...
which must consider the quality of life and best option for one who is terminally ill. Even though it was stated in the article how they allowed people to use it for immoral reasons. Theo A Boer used a documentary, which was about an 83-year-old woman who had been dealing with a term...
Postscript (2005): A couple of years after this was published, Jack was home and doing well when I was contacted by a documentary team from the UK who were making a film about Jack’s experience. I was asked to be a part of this. I spent a lot of time with the British team and...
Death Wish/Relentless: Directed by Allan Myers. With Avery Haines, David Tyler. The high demand for medically assisted death and the stories of those determined to die with dignity; Owen Brady's fight with cancer nearly details his hockey career.
The documentary portrays attending one’s funeral as some therapeutic remedy for those afflicted with suicidal thoughts where participants are reborn after the experience to get back to life with a new found meaning and a new perspective in life. Sadly, the cold and cruel reality of the world ...
The Life and Death of Lily Savage: Directed by Sharyn Mousley. With Jo Brand, Alan Carr, Julian Clary, Jools Holland. Explores how Paul O'Grady created Lily Savage. From the early years to taking mainstream TV by storm. Then the brave and bold decision t
In the previous two explanations—an essay in the Asahi newspaper, and an interview in an NHK documentary—Chiba's words reminded me of George Orwell's observation that "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."2 I do not know why Chiba's third account is clearer, but I have ...
Despite Toshio Shimao’s only other known adaptation being Life and Death on the Shore (2017), as testament to the writers’ reach — both the main author and his key, sometimes forceful inspiration — Toshio would be the subject and Miho the star of a documentary from Russian Ark (2002)...