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563) Two weeks
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Four siblings, now adults, gather together in North Carolina at their dying mother's house. What is expected to be a quick, last goodbye turns into being trapped together for two weeks.
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When Leandra travels to New England to help her sister Pammy through a difficult pregnancy, she meets the love of her life, Pammy's husband, Wim. The baby dies a few hours after his birth and Wim and Leandra find consolation in each other's arms. Pammy commits suicide and a guilt-ridden Leandra returns to her life repairing antique dolls in North Carolina. Ten years later, a dying Wim seeks refuge with Leandra one last time.
567) A will for the woods
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While battling lymphoma, Clark has discovered a burgeoning movement that uses "green" burial to conserve and restore natural areas, foregoing typical funeral practices that stress the ecosystem. Boldly facing his mortality, Clark and his partner Jane have become passionate about green burial, compelled by both the environmental benefits and the idea that one can remain within the cycle of life, rather than being cut off from it.
570) Camino a casa
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In the lush British farm country, Disa runs a small inn with her friend Anthony. They're both elderly eccentrics who understand each other too well. Now terminally ill, Disa must reckon with grief and difficult memories in the face of her impending death.
En esta exquisita novela, el autor islandés Ólafur Ólafsson cuenta la conmovedora historia de una mujer que emprende un singular viaje emocional hacia el pasado.
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Autumn in New York : A handsome playboy (Richard Gere) falls for a younger woman (Winona Ryder) and realizes that his love could last a lifetime. But a lifetime may be more than she's able to give in this heart-tugging drama.
Breathless : Richard Gere is Jesse Lujack, a small-time car theif who loves livin', Jerry Lee Lewis and his Silver Surfer comic books. But most of all, Jesse loves Monica, a sexy French architecture student. Gere gives "a breakthrough...
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(Producer) In homes, hospitals, and courtrooms, the process of dying in America is being fiercely contested. Through the experiences of three hypothetical patients, you'll examine difficult issues including physician-assisted suicide, final treatment options, and advance directives. Then draw on the insights of doctors, nurses, ethicists, and spiritual advisors to reach your own conclusions about the cultural, medical, and personal decisions we must...
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At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the...
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A serious, well-researched study of the trial, the politics, and euthanasia, featuring interviews with the attorneys, the prosecution, and the witnesses. Includes an interview with CBS investigative reporter Mike Wallace and an exclusive phone interview with Dr. Kevorkian from his jail cell.
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