Films, Movies and TV Specials Dealing with Dying and Euthanasia. Feature films dealing with aspects of dying and death* Based On A True Story. Dark Victory (1. 93. Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Ronald Reagan (dir. Socialite who is dying gets help from a doctor. NASP > NASP Center > Principals Principal Leadership Magazine, Vol. 4, Number 8, April 2004 Counseling 101 Column Dealing With Death at School. Prior planning, empathic leadership, and teachable moments promote healing. Dealing with fear, what is fear, the root of fear, protection from fear, overcoming fear,refuge from fear, love overcomes fear, fear of death, fear and attachment, fearlessness. Remade for TV as Stolen Hours (1. On Borrowed Time (1. Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi (dir. Grief is one of those emotions that have a life of their own. These 6 ideas may help you move through the healing process. Information, advice, polls, games, activities and message boards to help pre-teens explore topics such as depression, dealing with death, anger management, and volunteering. Lesson: Dealing With the Death of a Loved One. In this lesson we'll study what the Bible reveals about death, about God's promise of life after death, how to comfort one another and how to obtain God's gift of comfort and. When Death Impacts Your School. These lessons have been adapted from the books Helping the Grieving Student: A Guide for Teachers and When Death Impacts Your School: A Guide for School Administrators. To order copies of these. I did not, it is true, like my position in his house; but being freed from the annoyance of false professions and double-dealing I could endure it, especially as no heroic sentiment of hatred or jealousy of the director. Hospice Services, Make a Donation, Find a Local Hospice, Frequently Asked Questions, The Hospice Concept, What Questions Should I Ask About Hospice Care. From as early as I can remember, I looked ahead to certain events that would usher me into the status I first called big girl and later called all grown-up—the first day of school, the mastery of long division, the first bra. Here are some information and resources to help you with the many details that must be seen to when someone dies. Comedy about an old man who isn’t ready to die.*Pride of the Yankees (1. Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth (dir. Classic account of life and dying of baseball star Lou Gehrig with ALS. An Act of Murder (1. Frederic March, Florence Eldridge (dir. Judge who kills terminally ill wife faces trial in his court. Ikiru (1. 95. 2) - by Akira Kurosawa*The Eddy Duchin Story (1. Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore, Rex Thompson (dir. Society piano player is dying of leukemia. On the Beach (1. 95. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins (dir. Australians await death from nuclear fallout. The Bramble Bush (1. Richard Burton, Barbara Rush (dir. Doctor in love with dying friend’s wife. Love Story (1. 97. Ali Mac. Graw, Ryan O’Neal (dir. Boy falls in love with girl; girl dies.*Brian’s Song (1. James Caan, Billy Dee Williams (dir. Story of Brian Piccolo, Chicago Bears footballer dying of cancer. Harold and Maude (1. Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Ellen Geer (dir. The cult black comedy of a 2. Soylent Green (1. Charlton Heston, Joseph Cotton, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor- Young, Chuck Connors (dir. Central theme is the “Greenhouse effect”, but it contains the classic scene of Robinson’s idyllic euthanasia. Sunshine (1. 97. 3) – Brenda Vaccaro, Christina Raines, Cliff De. Young (dir. Couple and their doctor debate the way the wife is dying. Murder or Mercy? Court room drama of mercy- killing.*Babe (1. Susan Clark, Alex Karras (dir. Story of athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias’s life and dying.*Death Be Not Proud (1. John Savage, Patricia Neal, Claude Akins, Mark Hamill (dir. From John Gunther’s book about the dying of his 1. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1. Milos Forman. The Gathering (1. Edward Asner, Maureen Stapleton, Lawrence Pressman (dir. Father assembles dysfunctional family for last Christmas gathering before he dies.*A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1. Edward Herrmann, Blythe Danner (dir. Story of the baseball star who gave his name to the disease ALS.*First You Cry (1. Mary Tyler Moore, Anthony Perkins, Florence Eldridge, Jennifer Warren (dir. Betty Rollin’s fight with breast cancer.*Little Mo (1. Glynnis O’Connor, Michael Learned, Anne Baxter (dir. Story of tennis star Maureen Connelly’s early death. The End (1. 97. 8) – Stars Burt Reynolds as a man who discovers that he has an incurable disease and decides to take his own life. The bulk of this darkly comedic film concerns his attempts to find a painless and foolproof way to kill himself aided by a mental patient played by Dom De. Luise. Promises in the Dark (1. Kathleen Beller, Marsha Mason, Ned Beatty (dir. Young girl with cancer has compassionate doctor. Opname (1. 97. 9) – Marja Kok, Erik van Zuylen*The Elephant Man (1. David Lynch*Act of Love (1. Ron Howard, Robert Foxworth (dir. Man shoots crippled brother and is acquitted at trial. The Shadow Box (1. Joanne Woodward, Christopher Plummer, James Broderick, Ben Masters, Melinda Dillon (dir. Three terminally ill patients spend a day in discussion at a rustic retreat.*A Matter of Life and Death (1. Linda Lavin, Tyne Daly, Salome Jens, Gail Strickland (dir. Story of Joy Ufema, crusading nurse who modernised ways of treating the terminally ill. On Golden Pond (1. Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Doug Mc. Keon (dir. The psychological problems of terminal old age. Henry Fonda and Hepburn won Oscars for their performances. Whose Life Is It Anyway? Significant story of seriously injured artist fighting for disconnection from life- support equipment. Six Weeks (1. 98. Dudley Moore, Mary Tyler Moore, Katharine Healy (dir. Tearjerker about the dying of a six- year- old girl. The Ballad of Nayarama (1. Sh. Elderly couple choose death by car exhaust. An Early Frost (1. Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Aidan Quinn (dir. Emmy- award winning script about son who tells his parents that he is gay—and dying of AIDS. Do You Remember Love (1. Joanne Woodward, Richard Kiley, Geraldine Fitzgerald (dir. Much- praised story of college professo with Alzheimer’s Disease. The Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley (1. Katharine Hepburn, Nick Nolte (dir. Black comedy of New York seniors employing a mafia hit man to kill them quickly. Dead Ringers (1. 98. David Cronenberg*My Left Foot (1. Jim Sheridan*A Woman’s Tale (1. Sheila Florance (dir. Australian drama about 7. Florance died from her cancer two days after winning Australian Academy Award. Dying Young (1. 99. Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott (dir. A 2. 8- year- old man dying of leukemia hires young woman who undertakes to teach him “the meaning of life” before he dies. My Life (1. 99. 3) – Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman (dir. Dying man videotapes his last days. New Age (1. 99. 4) – Judy Davis, Peter Weller (dir. Complex story of self- deliverance and assisted suicide between two thirty- something “yuppies”. Terminal illness is not the cause but rather their exhaustion of life’s illusions. The Last Supper (1. Ken Mc. Dougall, Jack Nicholsen, Daniel Mac. Ivor (dir. Chris is a dancer dying of AIDS. He has chosen euthanasia to end his suffering. With the assistance of his lover Val and his doctor, he surrounds himself in his last hours with everything that made his life special and creates his ultimate work of art by choreographing his own death. The English Patient (1. Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas (dir. Oscar Best Picture is a magnificent movie of love and war. Particularly interesting to supporters of choice in dying is that, when close to the end of the story, the nurse quietly administers euthanasia to this dying patient at his request. It’s My Party (1. Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison (dir. Man dying of AIDS and calls all his friends to have a party on his last night alive. Fine drama and dialogue — and it refers in passing to the book . The film is a satire about American medicine, based on the novel by Richard Dooling and stars James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Anne Bancroft, Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Wright, and Albert Brooks. Wit (2. 00. 1) – Mike Nichols. Hable con ella (2. Pedro Almod. The main story is about a brilliant teenager who rebels and flunks out of everything. The opening and closing are remarkable scenes of two brothers helping their terminally ill mother to die with the aid of drugs and a plastic bag. Probably a first for showing this action in Hollywood. The Hours (2. 00. Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris (dir. Story of three women who are profoundly affected by Virginia Wolf’s novel, . This excellent film has, as its undercurrent, the reasons for a suicide, an attempted suicide, and a rational suicide. Kidman won an Oscar for her portrayal of Virginia Wolf who drowns herself to escape advancing madness. Moore is the city housewife, bored and confused, who nearly commits suicide. Harris plays the over- the- hill New York poet with advanced AIDS who can no longer bear to live and allows himself to fall to his death out of a window. Screenplay by David Hare from the novel by Michael Cunningham. It helps to have read the Pulitzer Prize novel first. Talk to Her (2. 00. Javier Camara, Rosario Flores (dir. Emotionally charged drama about the intense friendship between a writer and a male nurse who are both caring for coma- stricken women. Spanish, with subtitles. The Event (2. 00. Parker Posey, Olympia Dukakis, Sarah Polley (Dir. An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York’s fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the most recent case, a suspicious, apparent assisted suicide, and her interviews with friends and family of the deceased trigger extensive and intricately interwoven flashbacks that reveal surprising facts about the man’s life and death. My Life Without Me (2. Isabel Coixet. Inside I'm Dancing (2. Damien O'Donnell. Planta 4a (2. 00. Antonio Mercero. The Barbarian Invasions (2. R. A revisiting, some 1. Arcand’s 1. 98. 6 comedy drama film, “The Decline of the American Empire.” R. His ex- wife, Louise, asks their son S. He relents, however, and flies to Montreal to help his mother and support his father. As soon as he arrives, S. Oscar for best foreign film. French with subtitles.“The Barbarian Invasions is a film that effortlessly makes you laugh with delight, cringe with pain and weep for life’s inevitable end.”—Chicago Tribune.*The Sea Inside (2. Javier Bardem (dir. The film focuses on the death of Ramon Sampedro, a sailor who became a quadriplegic after injuries caused in a diving accident when he was 2. After 2. 9 years, he asked for assisted suicide and when refused, he wrote a book about his suffering, appealed to the Spanish Parliament, took out a court case, all of which failed. Eventually a group of euthanasia sympathizers successfully helped him with his suicide. In Spanish, with the title Mar Adentro,won a special jury award at the Venice Film Festival, and Bardem, won the best actor award. Opened in America in early 2. Million Dollar Baby (2. Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman (dir. Highly acclaimed by the critics, who nevertheless ignore the . Despite its inappropriate title and boxing ring background, the underlying theme of this film is assisted suicide and the soul- searching which precedes it. Fine acting all round. Won Oscars. The Secret Life of Words (2. Isabel Coixet. The Death of Mr Lazarescu (2. Cristi Puiu. Away from Her (2. Sarah Polley*The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2. Julian Schnabel. Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (2. Philippe Claudel. My Sister's Keeper (2. Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin (dir.
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